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PRIVATE LAW 87-580-OCT. 3, 1962

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Private Law 87-579 AN ACT

October 3, 1962

For the relief of certain additional claimants against the United States who suffered personal injuries, property damage, or other loss as a result of the explosion of a munitions truck between Smithfield and Selma, North Carolina on March 7, 1942.

[H. R. 5312]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary T. E. cooke of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money ^n^ others. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the claimants hereinafter named, the sums hereinafter specified, in full satisfaction of their respective claims against the United States for compensation for personal injuries, and property losses or damages sustained by them as the result of an explosion which occurred when a truck in which munitions were being transported for use by the United States Army collided with a privately owned passenger automobile at the intersection of United States Highways Numbered 301 and 70, between Selma, North Carolina, and Smithfield, North Carolina, on March 7, 1942, the equitable responsibility of the United States for the payment of identical claims having been recognized by the enactment of Private Law 86-92 (Eighty-sixth Congress, H.R. 2594, August 7, 1959).

73 Stat. A40.

(1) T. E. Cooke, Louisburg, North Carolina, for property damage, $800; (2) Bobbie Ray Lewis, Greenville, North Carolina, for personal injuries, $6,000; and (3) Roy A. Robertson, Jacksonville, Florida, for personal injuries, $10,000: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 25 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 October 3, 1962.

Private Law 87-580 AN ACT

October 3, 1962

For the relief of Robert Knobbe.

[H. R. 5320]

Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Robert Knobbe. of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $365 to Robert A. Knobbe of Fifty-three hundred South Christiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, in full settlement of his claims against the United States based upon an accident on April 9, 1960, when an Army staff car collided with his private automobile on Staten Island, New York. This claim is not cognizable under the Federal Tort Claims Act: Provided, That eo Stat. 842. ]io part of the amount appropriated in this Act shall be paid or de- 28 USC 267i note. livered 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 October 3, 1962.

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