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 1320 [CHAPTER 938] AN ACT For the relief of Karl E. Bond. 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 Karl E. Bond, Ship- rock, New Mexico, the sum of $5,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained and all expenses incident thereto by the said Karl E. Bond on May 26, 1943, as the result of an explosion in the basement of his home caused by leakage of gas from an Indian Service pipe line running from wells at Rattlesnake, New Mexico, to the Indian Service power plant at the Indian agency, Shiprock, New Mexico: 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 9, 1946. [CHAPTER 939] August 9, 1946 [H. R. 1860] [Private Law 8881 Muskegon Trust Co. as trustee of the John Torrent trust. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a duplicate of Porterfield scrip certificate numbered 53 to the Muskegon Trust Company, Muskegon, Michigan, as trustee of the John Torrent trust. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue to the Muskegon Trust Com- pany, Muskegon, Michigan, as trustee of the John Torrent trust a duplicate of Porterfield scrip certificate numbered 53, originally issued for forty acres of public land pursuant to the Act of Congress approved April 11, 1860, located to the extent of four and twenty- five one-hundredths acres by John Torrent on December 28, 1895, and returned to John Torrent certified as to its unused portion of thirty-five and seventy-five one-hundredths acres on August 21, 1903, upon satisfactory proof of ownership and loss of same, and the execution of a bond, with good and sufficient securities, in double the market value of the certificate so to be issued, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, conditioned to indemnify the United States against the presentation by an innocent holder of the alleged lost certificate. Such duplicate shall have all the legal force and effect of the original. Approved August 9, 1946. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 927, 938, 939-AUG. 8, 9, 1946 [60 STAT. delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of serv- ices rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any per- son 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. August 9,1946 [H. R. 783] [Private Law 887] Karl E. Bond.

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