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 742 [CHAPTER 277] July 6, 1945 [H. R. 2685] [Private Law 142] Naval personnel and former naval personnel. Reimbursement. AN ACT To reimburse certain naval personnel and former naval personnel for personal property lost or damaged as a result of a fire in the bachelor officers' quarters known as Macqueripe Annex, located at the United States naval operating base, Trinidad, British West Indies, on June 11, 1944. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum or sums, amounting in the aggregate not to exceed $3,643.56, as may be required by the Secretary of the Navy to reimburse, under such regulations as he may prescribe, certain naval personnel and former naval personnel for the value of personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire in the bachelor officers quarters known as Macqueripe Annex, located at the United States naval operating base, Trinidad, British West Indies, on June 11, 1944: Provided That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic- tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved July 6, 1945. [CHAPTER 285] July 6, 1945 [H. R. 842) {Private Law 143] Mrs. Sadie L. Dance. AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Sadie L. Dance. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Sadie L. Dance, of South Boston, Virginia, the sum of $982 for compensation for damages (not covered by insurance) to her fence, driveway, rose garden, shrubbery, and lawn, as the result of a United States Navy airplane crashing on her property in South Boston, Virginia, on June 18, 1944: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or deliv- ered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any per- son violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved July 6, 1945. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 276, 277, 285-JULY 6,1945 [59 STAT. received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any con- tract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved July 6, 1945.

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