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PRIVATE LAW 41-MAY 27, 1953

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medicine and surgery by Colonel J. Claude Kimbrough, Medical Corps, United States Army, Retired, and to provide that his mature professional judgment and long experience may continue to remain available to the public service, the President is hereby authorized to designate the said Colonel J. Claude Kimbrough, upon his retirement from the active list, as consultant in urology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia. Such designation shall be subject to the said Colonel J. Claude Kimbrough's acceptance and shall be terminable at his pleasure, or at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Army. During the time he serves under such designation, the said Colonel J. Claude Kimbrough shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of his retired pay, the full active-duty pay and allowances to which he was entitled immediately prior to his retirement. Approved May 27, 1953. Private Law 41 AN ACT

May 27, 1953 [H. R. 2420]

Ruth D. Crunk.

CHAPTER 82 For the relief of Ruth D. Crunk.

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 Kuth D. Crunk, widow of Tim D, Crunk, the sum of $5,000.. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Ruth D. Crunk against the United States for the death of her husband on January 22, 1944, as the result of burns sustained in a fire at the Evans Hall housing project, Evansville, Indiana, which was under the supervision and management of the National Housing Agency, the United States Court of Claims (congressional number 17857, decided April 3, 1951, pursuant to S. Res. 268, Eighty-first Congress) having found that the United States was negligent in failing to enforce its safety regulations, and that such failure was the proximate cause of such fire: 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 May 27, 1953. CHAPTER 83

Private Law 42 May 27, 1953 [H. R. 3389]

Pio Valensin.

AN ACT For the relief of Pio Valensin.

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 Pio Valensin, route 2, box 684, Gait, California, the sum of $452, The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Pio Valensin against the United States for property damage sustained as a result

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