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full settlement' of all their claims against the United States for compensation for personal injuries, pain and suffering, disfigurement, and property damage sustained by them, and for reimbursement of medical expenses incurred by them, as the result of a fire occurring on December 4, 1951, in an apartment building at the United States Naval Base, Middletown, Rhode Island, in which they occupied one of the apartments made available by the Department of the Navy to Navy personnel and their families: 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 these claims, 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 16, 1962.

Private Law 87-661 AN ACT For the relief of Lieutenant Commander David V. Kyrklund.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Lieutenant Commander David V. Kyrklund, United States Navy, retired, is relieved of liability to pay to the United States the sum of $1,601.07, received by him as an employee of the United States Post Office Department at Pensacola, Florida, of which sum the amount of $443.63 was received by him in contravention of the provisions of section 212 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (5 U.S.C. 59a), while serving ^s a substitute distribution clerk during the period beginning January 24, 1959, and ending July 22, 1960, both dates inclusive, and the amount of $1,157.44 was received by him in contravention of the provisions of the Act of Julv 31, 1894 (5 U.S.C. 62), while serving as a regular distribution clerk during the period beginning July 23, 1960, and ending October 24, 1960, both dates inclusive. I n the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United States, credit shall be given for amounts for which liability is relieved by this Act. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lieutenant Commander David V. Kyrklund, an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts paid by him, or withheld from sums otherwise due him, in complete or partial satisfaction of the liability to the United States specified in the first section. SEC. 3. 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 October 16, 1962.

October 16, 1962 [H. R. 4034]

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69 Stat. 498.

28 Stat. 205.

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