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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2D SESS.- CHS. 236-238-APR. 26, 1946 in New York City, New York, on November 15,1944: 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 April 26, 1946. [CHAPTER 237] AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Frank Mitchell and J. L. Price. 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. Frank Mitchell, Swainsboro, Georgia, the sum of $500, and to J. L. Price, Swainsboro, Georgia, the sum of $450. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Mrs. Frank Mitchell and J. L. Price against the United States for losses sustained as the result of the failure of the War Department to carry out its plans to use as a bombing range certain land owned by them in Emanuel County, Georgia, which the War Department had taken possession of o1, May 15, 1942, under the terms of leases signed by the said Mrs. Frank Mitchell and J. L. Price as lessors, after requiring such lessors to remove all buildings, fences, and other obstructions. On September 11, 1942, the leases for such property were returned to the lessors, unsigned by any representative of the United States, with the informa- tion that the War Department had decided to abandon the bombing range: Provided, That no part of either 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 the claim settled by payment of such amount, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary not- withstanding. 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 26, 1946. (CHAPTER 238] AN ACT For the relief of the legal guardian of James Herbert Keith, a minor. 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 James Herbert Keith, a minor, of Cedar Springs, Kentucky, the sum of $2,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained by the said James Herbert Keith on March 23, 1945, as the result of the explosion of a dynamite cap left in an abandoned shack which had been constructed by the Works Progress Administration at Cedar Springs, Kentucky, in or about the year 1936, in connection with a road-construction project: 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 1173 April 26, 1946 [H. R. 2885] [Private Law 529] Mrs. Frank Mitch- ell and J. L. Price. April 26, 1946 [HR.3301] [Private Law 530] Guardian of James Herbert Keith.

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