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 61 STAT.] 80rH CONG., 1ST SESS. - CHS. 137, 138-JUNE 25, 1947 in full settlement of all claims against the United States for damage or loss sustained by such persons as a result of the forest fire or fires which burned land and timber of the Pamlico Timber Corporation (in the case of which fire or fires the United States on August 2, 1937, was held liable, in a proceeding in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, for damage suffered by certain persons specified in such Act of August 13, 1940): M. Makely and George Makely, sixty acres, $300; Mary Windley iWillis, fourteen acres, $70; Mrs. Thomas G. Weston, two acres, $35; Mrs. Rena S. Jennette, S. E. Jennette, T. A. Jennette, and Mrs. W. H. Robbins, thirty acres, $300; Lenus Benson, Marvin Benson, Arreal Benson, Sill Benson, and Viola Benson, one-half interest in thirty acres, $75; T. J. Mann, two-thirds interest in one hundred acres, $660.66; Mary E. Credle heirs, forty-two acres, $420; Miss Lucy Saddler, thirty acres, $230; Etheline Ballance and Bernice Ballance, sixty-nine acres, $345; Tom C. Spencer heirs, five acres, $50; Emma B. Powell, one-half interest in thirty acres, $75; J. E. Berry, Senior, Estate, thirty-five acres, $280; Mrs. Eitha Mason Payne, Mrs. Euginia Mason Warren, Zinkia Mason Credle, W. T. Mason, Caddie Mason Hooper, Alex W. Mason, and C. R. Mason, forty acres, $200; Mrs. Charlie Gibbs, seven and one-half acres, $48.75; Edward A. Carawan, nineteen and three-tenths acres, $143; E. W. Farrow, ten acres, $100; J. M. Pugh, three and one-half acres, $35; Ola Lucas Spencer, eight acres, $55; J. S. Mann and E. D. Sewells, two-thirds interest in fifty acres, $694; W. H. Farrow and Charlie E. Spencer heirs (claims cover the same tract, W. H. Farrow claiming present ownership of the land), fifty-nine acres, $317: Provided, That no part of the amounts appropriated in this Act for the payment of any one claim 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 such 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 June 25, 1947. [CHAPTER 138] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of Thomas Gambacorto. 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 estate of Thomas Gambacorto, the sum of $1,500. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of the death of Thomas Gambacorto and hospital and funeral expenses and property damage sustained when the deceased was driving his wagon on State Highway Numbered 35, near Eatontown, New Jersey, and was struck in the rear by an Army-owned vehicle on January 18, 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 convio- tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved June 25, 1947. Juni 2., 1947 [n. R. 106K1 [Private Law 291 Thomas Oamba- corto, estate. 975

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