Private Law 427.
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(/us/pvtl/74/426).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary Alfred L. Hudson and Walter K. Jeffers. 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, to Alfred L. Hudson, the sum of $854.90, and to Walter K. Jeffers the sum of $629.70 in full settlement of all claims against the Government for damages to their property caused by the lowering of the water level of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, one and one-half miles west of the town of Saint Georges, in New Castle County, in the State of Delaware: *Provided*, That no part of the amount *Proviso*.
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees. 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.
Any person violating Penalty for violation. 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, March 10, 1936. For the relief of James E. McDonald. 1936-03-10 133 Chapter 49 Stat. 2235 74 2 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 133.] AN ACT For the relief of James E. McDonald. March 10, 1936.[[S. 2590](/us/bill/74/s/2590).][[Private, No. 427](/us/pvtl/74/427).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Comptroller James E. McDonald. Credit allowed in accounts of. General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit the account of James E. McDonald, former postmaster at Cohoes, Albany County, State of New York, in the sum of $13,723.70, due the United States on account of loss of postal funds, embezzled by Michael A.
Walsh, his then deputy postmaster, during the incumbency of said James E. McDonald in said office from April 11, 1922, to October 30, 1930: *Provided, however*, That *Proviso*. Principal and sureties not released from liability. the crediting of said amount to the account of the said James E. McDonald shall not be deemed to exonerate, and shall not exonerate, the said Michael A. Walsh, or his sureties on any official bond or bonds which he has given to the United States, and that the United States hereby expressly reserves the right to sue the said Michael A.
Walsh and his sureties for any and all moneys which may be found to be due from the said Michael A. Walsh. Approved, March 10, 1936. For the relief of James M. Montgomery. 1936-03-10 134 Chapter 49 Stat. 2235 74 2 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 134.] AN ACT For the relief of James M.
Montgomery. March 10, 1936.[[S. 2618](/us/bill/74/s/2618).][
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