Volume 50
Private Law 75–251
For the relief of the estate of Robert Edwin Lee.
Approved May 24, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the estate of Robert Edwin Lee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Robert Edwin Lee.
Payment to estate of.
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury allocated by the President for the maintenance and operation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, to the administrator of the estate of Robert Edwin Lee, late of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, the sum of $5,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for damages sustained by the said estate of Robert Edwin Lee on account of his death when the vehicle in which he was a passenger was struck on November 12, 1934, near Awendaw, South Carolina, by
Proviso.
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
a truck in the services of the Civilian Conservation Corps: 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
Penalty for violation.
with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any 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, May 24, 1937.