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 60 STAT.] 79rH CONG. , 2D SESS.--CHS. 816-818-AUG. 7, 1946 Mississippi, in full settlement of any and all claims against the United States for the death of their son, Rodney Edwin Williams, as a result of being struck and killed by a United States Army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on August 30, 1944: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated by 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 con- trary 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 August 7, 1946. [CHAPTER 817] AN ACT For the relief of William Tolar Smith. 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 William Tolar Smith, Hialeah, Florida, the sum of $10,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said William Tolar Smith against the United States for personal injuries sustained by him on January 19, 1944, while acting as engineer on the Seaboard Air Line Railway train designated extra 822 south, West Palm Beach-Hialeah local, as the result of a collision between such train and a United States Navy tractor and two gasoline tank trailers attached thereto on the Sea- board Air Line Railway crossing at One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Street, Miami, Florida: Provided, That no part of the amount appro- priated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, 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 August 7, 1946. [CHAPTER 818] AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Leroy A. Robbins. 1293 August 7,1946 [H. R. 1631] [Private Law 820] William Tolar Smith. August 7, 1946 [H. R. 1887] [Private Law 821] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary bMna.Irs.oy.^ of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Leroy A. Robbins, Gonzales, Louisiana, the sum of $98.05. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Mrs. Leroy A. Rob- bins against the United States on account of personal injuries sus- tained by her as the result of an accident in Alexandria, Louisiana, on September 20, 1941, involving the automobile in which she was riding and a United States Army truck. Approved August 7, 1946.

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