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Quota deduction.

PRIVATE LAW 177—JULY 30, 1961

poses of the immigration and naturalization laws, Biagio Poidimani shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of the date of the enactment of this Act, upon payment of the required visa fee and head tax. Upon the granting of permanent residence to such alien as provided for in this Act, the Secretary of State shall instruct the proper quotacontrol officer to deduct one number from the appropriate quota for the first year that such quota is available. Approved July 30, 1951.

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CHAPTER 2 7 1

AN ACT For the relief of B. H. Manley.

July 80, 1961 [H. R. 2406]

B. H. Mauley.

[65 STAT.

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 B. H. Manley, Beech Grove, Coffee County, Tennessee, the sum of $1,478.50. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said B. H. Manley against the United States for compensation for losses he sustained when his barn and its contents, including livestock, were destroyed by a fire on April 8, 1943, which was ignited while members of the United States Army on Army maneuvers were sleeping in such barn: 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 July 30, 1951.

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CHAPTER 2 7 2 AN ACT

July 30, 1951 [H. R. 3217]

For the relief of the Peerless Casualty Company and of Charles E. Nelson and Irwin I. Main.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the PeerlessCasualty United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Co. and others. of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Peerless Casualty Company, a corporation of the State of New Hampshire, the sum of $2,500, and to Charles E. Nelson, 6508 Central Avenue, Hyattsville, Maryland, and Irwin I. Main, 6828 Roosevelt Avenue, Hyattsville, Maryland, jointly, the sum of $2,500. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Peerless Casualty Company and the said Charles E. Nelson and Irwin I. Main against the United States for refund of the amounts which they posted as cash bail bonds in the case of The United States of America against John O. Staples, and which were forfeited by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on April 30, 1948. Such court, on May 5, 1950, ordered the refund of such amounts to the said Peerless Casualty Company and the said Charles E. Nelson and Irwin I. Main, but such

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