Volume 49
Private Law 74–878
For the relief of the Pocahontas Fuel Company, Incorporated.
Approved June 29, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the Pocahontas Fuel Company, Incorporated.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary 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 Pocahontas Fuel Company, Incorporated, a corporation duly organized and having a usual place of business in New York, New York, the sum of $224.18, in full satisfaction of its claim against the United States for property damage done to the coal wharf owned by said corporation at New Bedford, Massachusetts, by the United States Coast Guard cutter Acushnet on January 10,
Proviso.
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
1927: 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 attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any
Penalty for violation.
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.
Approved, June 29, 1936.