Private Law 89–117

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Myra Knowles Snelling, the daughter of Sergeant Willie L. Knowles (United Slates Air Force), the sum of $7,500 in full settlement of her claims against the United States on account, of personal injuries sustained by her on May 28, 1955, when she was struck by an automobile operated by a citizen of France as she was alighting from a school bus at Nogenten-Bassigny, France, which bus was engaged in transporting the children of Air Force personnel between the Air Force base and the school attended by such children pursuant to a contract with the United States Air Force. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act 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.

Sec. 2.

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $473.55 to Technical Sergeant Willie L. Knowles (United States Air Force) in full settlement of his claims against the United States for medical, hospital, and transportation expenses incurred by him in connection with the treatment of his daughter, Myra Knowles Snelling, during the period of her minority as the result of personal injuries sustained by her in the accident referred to in section 1 of this Act. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act 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.