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Volume 63

Private Law 81–68

For the relief of the estate of H. M. McCorvey.

Approved April 18, 1949

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of the estate of H. M. McCorvey.

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 the legal representative of the estate of H. M. McCorvey, deceased, late of Moultrie, Georgia, the sum of $836.59. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of such estate against the United States on account of personal injuries, property damage and loss of wages sustained by the said H. M. McCorvey as the result of a collision on April 16, 1944, between the automobile owned and operated by the said H. M. McCorvey and a United States Army truck, approximately one mile from Spence Field near Moultrie, Georgia: 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 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 April 18, 1949.

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