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Volume 47 · 1707

Private Law 72–468

To adjudicate the claims of Knud O. Flakne and Alfred Sollom, homestead settlers on the drained Mud Lake bottom, in the State of Minnesota.

Approved July 8, 1932

Statutory text

AN ACT

To adjudicate the claims of Knud O. Flakne and Alfred Sollom, homestead settlers on the drained Mud Lake bottom, in the State of Minnesota.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary

Knud O. Flakne and Alfred Sollom.

Payment to, as dispossessed claimants.

of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money to the claimants, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives; the amounts to be paid them, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives: To Knud O. Flakne, $151.60; to Alfred Sollom, $726, which amounts are hereby appropriated; and the Secretary of

Appropriation.

the Interior is authorized and directed to make the payment to the claimants herein named and provided for by his warrant upon the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That no agent, attorney,

Provisos.

Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.

firm of attorneys, or any persons engaged heretofore or hereafter in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting this claim shall, directly or indirectly, receive or retain for such service in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting such claim, or for any act whatsoever in connection therewith, an amount greater than was paid to the claimant for his assignment under this Act to the person for whom he has acted as agent or attorney: Provided further, That no purchaser or assignee

Limitation.

of the claim of said claimant shall receive therefor a greater amount than was paid to the claimant for his assignment.

Approved, July 8, 1932.

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