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PRIVATE LAW 93-81-JULY 12, 1974

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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 July 9, 1974. Private Law 93-80 AN ACT For the relief of Lester H. Kroll.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lester H. Kroll of West Seneca, New York, the sum of $416. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for overtime compensation to which he was entitled during the fiscal year 1948 as an employee of the Immigration and Naturalization Service under the Act of March 2, 1931 (ch. 368, secs. 1, 2, 46 Stat. 1467 (8-U.S.C. 1353a, 1353b)), but which he was not paid at the time on account of the erroneous application to him of the first proviso under the heading "Immigration and Naturalization Service" in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1948 (61 Stat. 292): 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 July 12, 1974.

July 12, 1974 [H. R. 3534]

Lester H. Kroll.

Private Law 93-8i AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Rita Petermann Brown.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $12,500 to Mrs. Rita Petermann Brown of New Orleans, Louisiana, in full settlement of her claims against the United States for an award under the Act of Augtist 12, 1955 (Public Law 84-378, 69 Stat. 707, relating to the Texas City disaster), as amended, due her under the laws of the State of Texas based upon the injuries sustained by her former husband, Ross M. Petermann, in the Texas City disaster on April 16, 1947. 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 July 12, 1974.

jyiy 12, 1974 [H. R. 7128]

Rita P. Brown.

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