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 1194 [CHAPTER 329] June 11, 1946 IS. 769] [Private Law 580] H. H. Ashbrook, and others. C. R. Watson. Charles R. Lau- comer. Kilpatrick Brothers Co. AN ACT For the relief of H. H. Ashbrook, and others. 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 H. H. Ashbrook, the sum of $2,311.97; to Jens C. Petersen, the sum of $1,299; to George Laucomer, the sum of $968.66; to Walker M. Lee, the sum of $882.27; to E. C. Douglass, the sum of $700; and to William Ledingham, Junior, the sum of $104, in full satisfaction of their claims against the United States for compensation for property damage sustained by them as a result of range fires caused by training operations of the United States Army Air Forces near the Sioux County Bomber Range, in Sioux County, Nebraska, for claims arising on account of damages sustained prior to October 1944; to C. R. Watson, the sum of $692.20, and to Charles R. Laucomer, the sum of $8,639.25, in full satisfaction of their claims against the United States for compensation for property damage sustained by them as a result of range fires caused by training operations of the United States Army Air Forces near the Sioux County Bomber Range, in Sioux County, Nebraska, for claims arising on account of damages sustained during the years 1943 and 1944; and to Kilpatrick Brothers Company, a Nebraska corporation, having its principal office at Beatrice, Nebraska, owning and operating a grazing range in Sioux County, Nebraska, the sum of $2,044.09, in full satisfaction of its claims against the United States for compensation for property damage sustained by it as a result of range fires caused in the year 1943, by training operations of the United States Army Air Forces in Sioux County, Nebraska. Acceptance of the benefits hereby provided shall not be regarded as covering damages sustained by said ilpatrick Brothers Company as a result of range fires caused in the year 1944 and subsequent years by training operations of the United States Army Air Forces, at or in connection with the Sioux County Bomber Range in Sioux County, Nebraska. Such claims now existing and such claims as may hereafter arise in favor of said Kilpatrick Brothers Company shall in nowise be prejudiced by this Act: Provided, That no part of the amounts 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 these claims, 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 June 11, 1946. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 323, 329-JUNE 10, 11 , 1946 [60 STAT. New Mexico, and her claim for compensation for disability allegedly resulting from her having contracted tuberculosis while employed as a nurse by the Veterans' Administration, at facilities of such Admin- istration, between April, 1926, and June 13, 1944, is authorized and directed to be considered and acted upon under the remaining provisions of such Act, as amended, as if she had filed notice of injury and claim for compensation for disability within the time prescribed by such sections 15 to 20, inclusive, but only if she files such claim with the United States Employees' Compensation Commission not later than sixty days after the date of enactment of this Act. That no benefits shall accrue prior to the approval of this Act. Approved June 10, 1946.

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