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PRIVATE LAW 663-MAY 22, 1956

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of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Gay Street Corporation, of Baltimore, Maryland, the sum of $3,145.94, representing the amount reported by the Court of Claims to the Congress in response to H. Res. 566, Eighty-second Congress (Congressional Numbered 3-52, order entered January 11, 1955), to be the amount agreed to by the United States and the said Gay Street Corporation, of Baltimore, Maryland, as constituting a full settlement of all past and future claims of the said Gay Street Corporation, of Baltimore, Maryland, against the United States with respect to a lease entered into on October 1, 1946, between the said Gay Street Corporation, of Baltimore, Maryland, and the W a r Assets Administration, an agency of the United States, and all other claims within the scope of H. R. 2779, Eightysecond Congress: 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 19, 1956.

Private Law 663 May 22, 1956 [H. R. 3738]

R o y M. H o f • heinz and wife.

68A Stat. 34.

CHAPTER 318

ANACT For the relief of Roy M. Hofheinz and wife Irene. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of determining the individual liability for income taxes for the taxable year 1952 of Roy M. Hofheinz and wife Irene, the election of said Roy M. Hofheinz, sole stockholder of Yorktown Corporation, which was liquidated pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation adopted on December 29, 1952, to have the benefits of section 112(b) (7) of the Internal Revenue Code, shall be considered to have been filed within thirty days after the date of adoption of such plan, such benefits having been denied because the filing of such election was delayed, without negligence or fault on the part of the stockholder, until the thirty-first day following the adoption of such plan. Approved May 22, 1956. CHAPTER 321

Private Law 664 May 24. 1956 [H. R. 2057]

Edwin K. S t a ntOOf

AN ACT For the relief of Edwin K. Stanton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Uongre^^s assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Edwin K. Stanton, Atlanta, Georgia, the sum of $254. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Edwin K. Stanton against the United States arising out of losses he sustained while employed by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, when ]iis personal property was destroyed by a fire which destroyed the camp of the Fish and Wildlife Service at the Klakas Lake stream weir in Alaska on September 21, 1948: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act shall be paid or delivered to or

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