Volume 48 · 1304
Private Law 73–35
To authorize the settlement, allowance, and payment of certain claims, and for other purposes.
Approved February 26, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the settlement, allowance, and payment of certain claims, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That payment to
Claims.
Settlement of certain designated, authorized.
Ante, p. 1055.
American Appraisal Co.
the American Appraisal Company for services rendered in the amount of $750 for the appraisal of the Peter Lyall plant at Montreal, Canada, and for services rendered in the amount of $1,250 for the appraisal of the Long Island Air Reserve Depot, New York, is hereby authorized to be made from the proceeds of the sale of surplus real estate under the jurisdiction of the War Department not as yet deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the military post
Vol. 44, p. 203.
construction fund, as provided for by the Act of Congress approved March 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 203).
Sec. 2.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be,
John A. Bellan.
Vol. 38, p. 508, waived.
and he is hereby, authorized, notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of July 16, 1914 (38 Stat. 508), to adjust and settle the claims
Standard Oil Company.
of John A. Bellan and the Standard Oil Company in the amounts of $356 and $8.49, respectively, for rental and operation of an automobile used in connection with improvements to the road system in the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi, during the fiscal year 1931, and to certify same for payment from the appropriation “ Vicksburg National Military Park 1931.
Sec . 3.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the following claims and certify the same to Congress:
Alleghany Forging Company on account of damages suffered by reason of excess in freight, hauling, labor, and incidental expenses due to shipment by the United States of salvaged material, purchased by claimant to wrong destination: $174.92.
Walter Bell on account of damages suffered by reason of destruction of mature vines of a cranberry bog by fire, which started on Camp Dix Military Reservation, and extended over said bog on or about June 3, 1930: $2,500,
Carl B. King Drilling Company, on account of damages suffered to its airplane due to an Army airplane running into it at Clover Field, California, on or about August 2, 1930: $1,722.03.
M. Giacalone, on account of damages suffered while engaged in rescuing an Army aviator and assisting in salvaging an Army airplane from the sea off the coast of Hawaii on or about October 30, 1930: $459.61.
Jact Buono, on account of damages suffered while engaged in rescuing an Army aviator and assisting in salvaging an Army airplane from the sea off the coast of Hawaii on or about October 30, 1930: $469.88.
Joseph Asaro, on account of damages suffered while engaged in rescuing an Army aviator and assisting in salvaging an Army airplane from the sea off the coast of Hawaii on or about October 30, 1930: $459.
Sam Harrison, on account of damages suffered by reason of a bomb dropping from an Army airship on a farmhouse owned by him near Scott Field, Illinois: $1,982.
Sec. 4.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the following claims of civilian employees of the Army and certify the same to Congress: Emil Johns, $22.23; John J. Spatz, Junior, $79.79; Perry W. Stelzenberg, $56.75; Paul D. McMahan, $42.38; Oliver B. Tinley, $42.35; Cleo Finch, $18; Jesse P. Goodin, $15.98; and Paul R. Gruhler, $20, on account of private property belonging to them which was lost, destroyed, or damaged in a fire in a Government building at Wright Field, Ohio, on or about January 2, 1931, while said claimants were engaged in saving Government property.
Sec. 5.
That the payment of any and all the claims herein authorized shall be in full payment thereof by the Government: 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 agents, attorney or attorney’s on account of services rendered
Excessive, unlawful.
in connection with said claim, It shall be unlawfull for any agent or agents, attorney or attorney’s, to exact, collect, withold, 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.
Penalty for.
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 $1000.
Approved, February 26, 1934.