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 PRIVATEJuly 1, 1946 PRIVATE LAWS--CHS. 715, 716, 7 l--Aug31, 1946 [60 STAT. said Standard Dredging Corporation and the Arundel Corporation. Consolidated Engineering Company, Incorporated, and Hardaway Contracting Company, all of Baltimore, Maryland, joint venturers and prime contractors under a cost-plus-a -fixed-fee contract with the Navy Department (contract NOy-3680 and subsequent changes and supplemental agreements thereto) for the construction of certain public works in Puerto Rico and other locations in the West Indies, under which subcontract the said Standard Dredging Corporation agreed, at a unit price of 35 cents per cubic yard, to do certain hydraulic dredging, filling, and dike construction in connection with the con- struction of the United States Naval Base, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims against the prime contractors or the United States arising from the performance of such subcontract: 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, 1946. July 31, 1946 [H. R. 6324] [Private Law 798] Mrs. Mary Franco- line and Mrs. Rose Wallace. Augut 1,1946 IS. 15491 [Private Law 799] Guardian of Duane N. Thompson. [CHAPTER 716] AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Mary Francoline and Mrs. Rose Wallace. 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. Mary Francoline, Hartford, Connecticut, the sum of $7,500, and to Mrs. Rose Wallace, Hartford, Connecticut, the sum of $447.60. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of personal injuries and damage to property sus- tained by the said Mrs. Mary Francoline and Mrs. Rose Wallace when they were struck on December 17, 1944, while walking on the sidewalk of Franklin Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, by a United States mail truck: Provided, That no part of either of the sums 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 ren- dered in connection with the claim settled by the payment of such sum, 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, 1946. [CHAPTER 730] AN ACT For the relief of the legal guardian of Duane N. Thompson. 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 the legal guardian of Duane N. Thompson, a minor, of Berkeley, California, the sum of $3,753.70 in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States for compensation for personal injuries sustained by the said Duane N. 1284

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