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PRIVATE LAW 915-AUG. 31, 1954

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sum of $2,732.39 to E. C. Mills, of Richlands, North Carolina, in full settlement of all claims against the United States, representing a refund of income tax erroneously collected from him on August 15, 1944, and April 3, 1945, by the Bureau of Internal Revenue: 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 August 31^ 1954. Private Law 915 August 31, 1954 Ip. R. 3217]

Mrs. Florence D. Grimshaw,

CHAPTER 1120

AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Florence D. Grimshaw.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States Government life insurance (K926994) granted to the late David W. Grimshaw in 1932 and converted in the amount of $2,500 effective June 1, 1937, shall be held and considered to have been in full force and effect at the time of his death on July 14, 1951, and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized and directed to pay such insurance to Mrs. Florence D. Grimshaw, widow of the said David W. Grimshaw and designated beneficiary of such insurance: 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 August 31, 1954. CHAPTER 1121

Private Law 916 August 31, 1954 [H. R. 3232]

Dennis F. Guthrie.

AN ACT For the relief of Dennis F. Guthrie.

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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $101.30 to Dennis F. Guthrie, of 48 South Fairview Street, Roslindale, Massachusetts, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the loss of his personal property, which was destroyed during his service on the Mexican border at the time of the so-called second Galveston flood, on August 16, 1915: 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 August 31, 1954.

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