Private Law 238.
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(/us/pvt/74/237).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Sudden and Christenson, Incorporated, and others. Payment to. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $78,025.83, with interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from May 19, 1927, to the date of the approval of this Act, jointly, to Sudden and Christenson, Incorporated, John A.
Hooper, Emil T. Kruse, Edward Kruse, Gilbert Loken, and G. W. McNear, Incorporated, or their successors in interest, upon receipt by the Secretary of State of satisfactory releases from the respective claimants of all claims for damages resulting from the capture on January 27, 1916, and subsequent use by the British Government of the steamship Edna, as recommended in the decision rendered on December 22, 1934, by the arbitrator, John Clark Knox, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York: *Proviso.* Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees. *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 agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim.
It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Penalty for violation.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 19, 1935. For the relief of Walter C. Price and Joseph C. Le Sage. 1935-08-19 574 Chapter 49 Stat. 2150 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 private [CHAPTER 574.] AN ACT For the relief of Walter C. Price and Joseph C. Le Sage. August 19, 1935.[[S. 2751](/us/bill/74/s/2751).][[Private, No. 238](/us/pvt/74/238).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That former Postmaster Walter C.
Price and Joseph C. Le Sage. Charge against postal accounts of, released. Walter C. Price and former Assistant Postmaster Joseph C. Le Sage, both of Huntington, West Virginia, be released from the claim of the United States Government against them in the settlement of the shortage of approximately $10,428.24, caused by the defalcation of Samuel T. Shawver, in the post office, at Huntington, West Virginia. Credit allowed. Sec. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to credit the account of Walter C.
Price, former postmaster at Huntington, West Virginia, with the sum of $10,428.24, which amount is charged against said account as the result of embezzlement of money order funds by Samuel T. Shawver, former clerk in charge of the money order section at said post office. Approved, August 19, 1935. For the relief of Hazel B. Lowe, Tess H. Johnston, and Esther L. Teckmeyer. 1935-08-20 579 Chapter 49 Stat. 2151 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 private 2151 [CHAPTER 579.] AN ACT For the relief of Hazel B. Lowe, Tess H. Johnston, and Esther L. Teckmeyer. August 20, 1935.[[S. 280](/us/bill/74/s/280).][
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