Private Law 74–412

That the Comptroller

Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans.

Adjustment, etc., at claim.

General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the claim of the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans for reimbursement of its expenditures for labor, material, and rental of equipment in repairing the damage to its carferry incline tracks located at Gouldsboro, Louisiana, within the limits of the New Orleans Harbor, which were damaged on September 18, 1931, by the sinking thereon of a concrete bank-protection mattress during the Government’s construction operations under an approved project for revetment work within the limits of New Orleans Harbor, and to allow in full and final settlement of said claim not to exceed the sum of $1,440.75. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money

Appropriation.

in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,440.75, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay said claim: Provided, That

Proviso.

Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.

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 said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any

Penalty for violation.

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.