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PRIVATE LAW 479-MAR. 5, 1952

Private Law 479

CHAPTER 85 For the relief of Wanda R. Barnett.

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 Wanda R. Barnett, Michigantown, Indiana, the sum of $365.19. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Wanda R. Barnett, postmaster of the United States post office at Michigantown, Indiana, against the United States for reimbursement of the amount which she was required to pay to the United States as the result of the theft of certain funds from such post office on May 24, 1949: 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 March 5, 1952. Private Law 480

March 5, 1952 [H.R. 2205]

Mary Alice Floyd.

54 Stat. 885. 50 USC. app.318.

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March 5, 1952 [H.R. 1962]

Wanda R. Be nett.

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CHAPTER 86 AN ACT For the relief of Mary Alice Floyd.

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 Mary Alice Floyd, of AVoodruff, South Carolina, former teacher in the Woodruff Public Schools, the sum of $10,000. Payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Mary Alice Floyd against the United States for severe and permanent personal injuries and for continuing medical and hospital expenses arising out of an automobile accident in which she was involved on October 11, 1940, while she was traveling from Woodruff to Spartanburg, South Carolina, to receive instructions for conducting registrations under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The State of South Carolina paid the salary and medical and hospital expenses of the said Mary Alice Floyd from October 1940 until June 1945 but thereafter discontinued such payments on the ground that the said Mary Alice Floyd was acting for the Federal Government when injured: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 jier 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 March 5, 1952.

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