Private Law 75–211

That the Secretary

Edward C. Paxton.

Payment to.

of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Edward C. Paxton the sum of $1,374.50 in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for the total of the amount disallowed in his expense accounts for travel and subsistence expenses incurred while traveling on a foreign vessel from New York City, New York, to Sydney, Australia, as a representative of the Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture, and of the amount paid by the Government to a steamship company for transportation requests issued to and used by him in connection with said travel, and which the said Edward C. Paxton was required by the Comptroller General of the United States to refund to the

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United States prior to the approval of Private Law Numbered 450, Seventy-fourth Congress, and while such legislation was pending; which authorized and directed the Comptroller General to allow in the accounts of the said Edward C. Paxton in the sum of $324.50 and to relieve him of any liability for the payment of the sum of

Proviso.

Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.

$1,050: 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.