Volume 49 · 2110
Private Law 74–410
For the relief of the Barlow-Moore Tobacco Company.
Approved July 23, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the Barlow-Moore Tobacco Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Barlow-Moore Tobacco Company.
Reimbursement authorized.
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Barlow-Moore Tobacco Company, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, the sum of $311.04, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the value of tobacco stamps purchased by that company as payment of duty on manufactured tobacco reimported and
Proviso.
Limitation, on attorney’s, etc., fees.
returned to the factory to be reworked: 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 attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, 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
Penalty for violation.
said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any per son 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, July 23, 1935.