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PRIVATE LAW 85-183-AUG. 21, 1957

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in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lieutenant Colonel Emery A. Cook (8004-A) United States Air Force, the sum of $1,360.54. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Emery A. Cook against the United States for re'^ fund of expenses incurred in January 1954 in shipping his houses hold effects from Berkeley, California, to Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The said Emery A. Cook, who was transferred under Special Orders 111 (dated May 9, 1953) from overseas duty to a permanent station at Randolph Air Force Base after completion en route of a course of education at the University of California, shipped his household effects to Berkeley under such orders in reliance upon his expectation (derived solely from erroneous information given him by transportation personnel of the Air Force) that the effects would be reshipped from Berkeley to Randolph Air Force Base at Government expense upon completion of such course of education; but such reshipment was. denied, on the ground that only one such shipment may be made under any one set of orders, with the result t h | t he was compelled to pay the expenses of reshipment out of his own funds: 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 21, 1957.

Private Law 85-183 AN ACT For the relief of Alton B. York.

Augist 2)1, 1957 [R. R. 2985]

Be it emxicted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Alton B. York. of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Alton B. York, Cottage Grove, Oregon, the sum of $711.76. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Alton B. York against the United States arising out of personal injuries and property damage sustained by him on November 1, 1951, when the truck which he was driving was struck near Tacoma, Washington, by an Army cargo truck which had been negligently driven through a stop light. Such claim is not cognizable under the Federal Tort Claims Acts because 28 USC ^267*1 &t of the fact that the driver of the Army truck (an enlisted man of the seq. Army) was using such truck for unauthorized purposes and was not acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the accident: 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 21, 1957.

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