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 PRIVATE LAWS--CHS. 345-347-JULY 31,1945 [CHAPTER 345] AN ACT For the relief of Herman Gelb. July 31, 1945 [H. R. 838] [Private Law 170] Herman Gelb. [CHAPTER 3461 AN ACT For the relief of John F. Davis. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the John F. Davis. United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstand- ing the provisions of any laws or orders, regulations or rulings, made thereunder by any department, agency, or officer of the United States, John F. Davis, principal fiscal accounting clerk, naval air station, Tillamook, Oregon, is hereby released from any indebtedness to the United States arising from the claim of the United States for the cost of transportation of household effects of said John F. Davis from Palo Alto, California, to Tillamook, Oregon; it being the intent of this Act that the cost of such transportation shall be borne by the United States. Approved July 31, 1945. [CHAPTER 347] AN ACT For the relief of Madeline Winter and Ethel Newton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Madeline Winter. 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 Madeline Winter, the EthelNewton. sum of $8,340; to pay to Ethel Newton the sum of $5,160, both of Caribou, Maine, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the deaths of Alfred Winter, Senior, Alfred Winter, Junior, and Elouise May Newton, who were killed on June 26, 1943, by a United States Army airplane while in a field at Caribou, Maine: Pro- vided, 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 conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved July 31, 1945. 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, to Herman Gelb, of New York City, New York, the sum of $200, in full settlement of all claims against the United States by said Herman Gelb on account of the injuries sustained by him when the automobile in which he was a passenger was struck by a War Department jeep on October 15, 1943, in Jersey City, New Jersey: 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 conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved July 31, 1945. July 31, 1945 [H. R. 1245] [Private Law 171 July 31, 194 [H. R. 1301] [Private Law 172] [59 STAT.

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