Private Law 81–407

That the Public Housing Commissioner be authorized and directed to pay, out of Lanham Act funds to R. E. Cowan, clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, Texas, or his successor in office, the principal sum of $9,500, together with accrued interest thereon in the stun of $665, in satisfaction of the judgment of the Sixtieth District Court of Jefferson County, Texas, in cause numbered 58,809, styled William T. Orton against National Housing Agency et al., as same appears of record in volume 27, page 537, of the civil minutes of said court; said payment to be placed in the registry of said court and distributed under orders of the court to the person or persons entitled to the proceeds thereof as provided by the laws of Texas.

In the distribution of the proceeds of said judgment the court may award such attorneys’ fees as he may ascertain were contracted for and earned by attorneys in connection with the prosecution of said suit in the courts.