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CHAP. 42.— Joint Resolution To repeal an Act approved March 2, 1929, entitled “An Act for the relief of C. C. Spiller, deceased,” and to provide for the relief of the estate of C. C. Spiller, deceased. June 28, 1929[[H. J. Res. 58](href=/us/bill/71/hjres/58)][[Priv. Res., No. 1](/us/bill/71/privres/1)] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Act approvedC. C. Spiller.Former Act repealed.Vol. 45, p. 2370, repealed.
March 2, 1929, entitled “An Act for the relief of the estate of C. C. Spiller, deceased,” being Private Act Numbered 532, Seventieth Congress, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Be it further *Resolved*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the TreasuryPayment of judgment of Court of Claims to estate of. not otherwise appropriated, to the estate of C. C. Spiller, deceased, late of Hamilton County, Tennessee, the sum of $8,000, found to be due him by the Court of Claims in congressional case numbered 10549, as appears by Senate Document Numbered 173, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, being his share of the reasonable charter value, together with the destruction thereof, of a small steamboat known as the Paint Rock taken and used by the United States and while in their possession accidentally destroyed and never paid for, all while the said C.
C. Spiller, deceased, was a loyal citizen of the United States, as evidenced by the findings or report dated June 27, 1864, of a board of claims designated by the commanding officer of the Department of the Cumberland by Special Field Orders Numbered 104, dated April 12, 1864, still of record in the War Department: *Provided*, That no part of the amount appropriated in*Provisos*.Limit for services of attorneys. this joint resolution in excess of 20 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered or advances made in connection with said claim: *Provided further*, That it shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold,Exacting greater sum unlawful. or receive any sum which in the aggregate exceeds 20 per centum of the amount appropriated in this joint resolution on account of services rendered or advances made in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding.
Any personPunishment for. violating the provisions of this joint resolution shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $4,000. Approved, June 28, 1929. 1631