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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 922-924-AUG. 8, 1946 August 8.1946 [H. R. 6050] [Private Law 882] Minnie P. Shorey. August 8, 1946 [H. R. 5288] [Private Law aS31 Warren M. Miller. 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 August 8, 1946. [CHAPTER 923] AN ACT For the relief of Minnie P. Shorey. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates 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 Minnie P. Shorey, Tampa, Florida, the sum of $640. Such sum represents the amount of compensation which the said Minnie P. Shorey would have received as an employee of the War Department at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida, for the period beginning September 4, 1944, and ending May 1945, if she had not been suspended for alleged insubordination on September 3, 1944. On an appeal taken by the said Minnie P. Shorey from the order of suspension, she was held not guilty of insubordination by a board of officers and was restored to her employment on May 3, 1945: 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 August 8, 1946. [CHAPTER 924] AN ACT For the relief of Warren M. Miller. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Warren M. Miller, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is relieved of all liability to refund to the United States amounts paid to him for part-time services as an employee of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, during the period when he was not eligible, because of being in the service of the War Department, Philadelphia Engineer District, to receive compensation from funds appropriated for the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Any amounts heretofore credited to him or refunded to the United States by him on account of such unauthorized payment to him shall be repaid to him out of any money available for the payment of salaries of employees of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any disbursing officer of the United States the payment of such amounts for such part-time services shall be considered to have been authorized. Approved August 8, 1946. 1318 [60 STAT.

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