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PRIVATE LAW 5 5 6 - J U L Y 20, 1954


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amount appropriated in this Act 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 20, 1954. Private Law 555

CHAPTER 555

AN ACT For the relief of the estates of Opal Perkins, and Kenneth Ross, deceased.

July 20, 1954 [H. R. 5433]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the opal United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary estate. P erk i n s, of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money Kenneth Ross in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $6,000, to the estate of Opal Perkins, deceasecl, and to pay the sum of $6,000 to the estate of Kenneth Ross, deceased, all residents of Newcomb, Tennessee. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States arising out of the instant death of Opal Perkins and Kenneth Ross, on October 25, 1935, when they were burned and instantly killed as the result of an explosion caused by the negligence and wrongful conduct of employees of the Federal Government engaged in work on the public roads of Campbell County, Tennessee, said work being carried on by employees of the Works Project Administration, and in the performance of which they stored quantities of road materials in iron or steel barrels on a lot in the town of Newcomb, Tennessee, where children Avere accustomed to congregate and play, and which said road materials thus stored in said barrels generated and emitted wlien they were unstopped highly inflammable and explosive gases which, when they came in contact with fire, exploded: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act 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 20, 1954. Private Law 556 AN ACT For the relief of H a t s u k o Kuniyoshi Dillon.

CHAPTER 556 July 20, 1954 [H. R. 5578]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Hatsuko Kuniyoshi Dillon shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to us3. the United States for permanent residence as of the date of the enactment of this Act upon payment of the required visa fee: Provided, That a suitable and proper bond or undertaking, approved by the Attorney General, be deposited as prescribed by section 213 of the said Act. ^^ ^^^ Approved July 20, 1954. ^
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