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 60 STAT.] 79Tn CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 222, 223-APR. 24, 1946 property, in others by being required to forego the sowing of cover crops, wheat, barley, and oats, and by being denied the privilege of saving silage and cutting up corn, which resulted from notification to them by the military authorities, representatives of the land acquisi- tion office, and by appraisers sent out for said purpose, representing the United States Government in said capacities, and notifying them that their lands would be taken, that they would be required to move within thirty or sixty days, not to sow cover crops or small grain nor cut up fodder or fill silos, and said property owners in good faith acted on said advice and followed said directions as a direct result of which said damages and loss was sustained by them by reason of a change in plans of said authorities in which they dropped the area, which they had theretofore planned to take, and expanded the military reservation in another direction leaving the said parties with their property, which it had been proposed to take, and in some instances with other properties purchased. Those who sustained such damages and the amounts thereof are as follows: David L. Ditto, $612.09; J. W. Allen, $585.39; 0. O. Hinton, $50; Joseph W. Hinton, $367.35; 0. T. Allen, $70; Claud Nail, $76.64; Jess Nail, $620; Nellie Wells, $930.05; Ernest D. Payne, $1,350; James W. Ward, $834; James S. Blair, $432; J. H. Atcher, $174; Charles E. Reesor, $115; M. E. Blankenbaker, $578; James Warren, $234; Say- Dee E. Brindle, $200; Buford K. Patterson, $354.42; James H. White, $95.08; Floyd L. Stackhouse, $359; Billie B. Davis, $480; John M. Davis, $100; Alfred O. Hargan, $253.88. The above amounts being the respective sums recommended to the War Department for payment by a board of officers duly appointed by the Fort Knox post commander and who heard evidence thereon in the summer of 1943, which report and evidence were transmitted by them to the War Department. The payment when so made, shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States by reason of said losses and damages result- ing to said persons by reason of the above-named facts and which occurred in 1941 and the early part of 1942, and which property was located in Hardin County, Kentucky: 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 respective claims, or any one of them, and the same shall be unlawful, any con- tract 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 April 24, 1946. [CHAPTER 223] AN ACT April 24, 194 For relief of land and personal property owners of Fort Knox area of Meade H. R. 266] County, Kentucky. [Private Law 517] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary otM RlBy. and of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the following named persons, or their administrators, executors, or assigns, the sums hereinafter respectively set opposite and following their names, to compensate them and reimburse them for losses sus- tained by reason of (1) failing to plant crops and sow small grain, grass seeds, and cover crops, and failure to save roughage crops, and 806340- -4S - -T. IIr 5 1167

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