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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 24, 1956.

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CHAPTER 322

AN ACT To confer jurisdiction upon the United States Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Graphic Arts Corporation of Ohio, of Toledo, Ohio.

May 24, 1956 [H. R. 2893]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is c^l^-^l^^^iJlf hereby conferred upon the Couit of Claims to hear, determine, and ohio. render judgment upon the claim of the (jraphic Arts Corporation of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, as to the liability of the United States, if any, either legal or equitable, for losses alleged to have been sustained by the said Graphic Arts Corporation of Ohio as the result of the performance of a contract. Numbered W33-038ac 2023, dated April 17, 1944, entered into with the United States Arm}^ Air Corps. SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any statute of limitations or lapse of time, suit upon such claim may be instituted by the claimant within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Proceedings for the determination of such claim and review thereof, and payment of any judgment thereon, shall be had as in the case of claims over which such court has jurisdiction under section 1491 of title 28 of the United States Code. " Stat. ees. SEC. 3. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as an inference of liability on the part of the United States Government. Approved May 24, 1956.

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CHAPTER 323

AN ACT For the relief of S. H. Prather, Mrs. Florence Prather Penman, and S. H. Prather, Junior.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Conpress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to S. H. Prather, Americus, Georgia, the sum of $5,000; to pay Mrs. Florence Prather Penman the sum of $2,000, and to pay S. H. Prather, Junior, the sum of $1,000. The payment of such sums shall be in settlement of all the claims against the United States for property damage and personal injury damages sustained by them, together with all hospital and medical bills incurred by them, arising out of a collision which occurred on August 6, 1935, when an automobile in which the said S. H. Prather, his wife, daughter, Florence Prather (now Mrs. Arthur Penman), and his son, S. H, Prather, Junior, were traveling in a lawful manner upon and over a certain public street and highway in the city of Quitman, Georgia, was struck by an automobile driven upon, and into said public street and highway, by one Howard H a r t at the rate of at least sixty miles per hour, the said Howard H a r t

May 24, 1956 [H. R. 5535]

S. H. P r a the r and family.

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