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PRIVATE LAW 639-MAY 18, 1956

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making payment from his personal funds of the amount of a certain trust fund to the proper parties after having paid the amount of such trust fund in Stockhohn, Sweden, to an individual not entitled to such payment who subsequently confessed to being an imposter: 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 May 18, 1956.

Private Law 639 May 18, 1956 [H. R. 2338]

CHAPTER 290 ^^ ^^'^ For the relief of (diaries F. Biiliette.

Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ^^charies F. Bui- 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 Charles F. Bullette, Racine, Wisconsin, the sum of $297.21, as payment of hospital and medical expenses incurred from August 24, 1953, through September 5, 1953. The payment of such claim shall be in full settlement of all claims of said Charles F. Bullette against the United States on account of medical, hospital, and other expenses incurred as a result of such illness: 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 May 18, 1956. Private Law 640 May 18, 1956 [H- R- 2717]

CHAPTER 291

^ ^ ACT p o r the relief of Giles P. Fredell and wife.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the de?i^ iid wif^' ^'*' ^"^'^^^'^ States of Amenca in Congress assembled, That the interest an w e. which accrued on a promissory note for $11,400 executed June 2, 1952, by Giles P. Fredell, of Cottonwood, Tehama County, California, and his wife, in favor of the United States of America, u p to and including September 28, 1953, in the amount of $458.17 is hereby waived for the reason that the funds advanced for repairing and rehabilitating an existing irrigation facility could not be used by the borrower without the approval of the representatives of the Secretary of Agriculture, and that approval was withheld because it was subsequently demonstrated that the well would not produce a supply of water sufficient for the borrowers' needs, and the cost of any other satisfactory facility was economically unfeasible. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to cause the proper entries to be made in the accounting records in the Department of Agriculture to eifect such waiver. Approved May 18, 1956.

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