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PRIVATE LAW 1022-JULY 18, 1952

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May 14, 1943, when the airphine which he was piloting was struck by a United States Army bomber on the runway at the Birmingham Municipal Airport, Birmingham, Alabama, such airport at that time being under the control and management of the Government: 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 17, 1952. Private Law 1022 July 18, 1952 [H.R. 1095]

Shelby Shoe Co., Salem, Mass.

Creditors.

52 Stat. 905. 11 USC 701-799.

Publication of notice.

CHAPTER 947

AN ACT For the relief of Shelby Shoe Company, of Salem, Massachusetts.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) in full settlement of the claim of the Shelby Shoe Company, of Salem, Massachusetts, against the United States for losses sustained by it as a result of contract numbered W 19-074qm-4267, dated May 21, 1946, with the Procurement Division of the Department of the Army, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $84,498.98'to the clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts who shall use such sum (1) to pay to each unsecured creditor of said Shelby Shoe Company, after giving notice and upon demand therefor, as provided in subsection (b), the unpaid balance of his claim against such company appearing in schedules heretofore filed, under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Act, in the Shelby Shoe Company Bankruptcy Case, Numbered 70372, and (2) to pay the balance of such sum, after making the payments authorized in (1) and deducting all incidental expenses incurred in the disbursement of such sum, to said Shelby Shoe Company; but nothing contained herein shall authorize the payment to any such creditor of interest on the unpaid balance of his claim against such company. (b) Upon receipt of the sum herein authorized to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, said clerk shall cause notice to be published not less than once in each of three successive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation, and a copy thereof sent by registered mail to the last known address of each of the creditors described in subsection (a), advising such creditors of the provisions of this Act. No such creditor shall be entitled to any payment under this Act unless he shall file with said clerk a written claim therefor' within three months after the date such notice shall be last published, or the date such notice shall have been mailed to his last known address, whichever is the later. (c) 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 18, 1952.

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