Volume 50
Private Law 75–388
To provide an appropriation for the payment of claims of persons who suffered property damage, death, or personal injury due to the explosion at the naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, July 10, 1926.
Approved June 28, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide an appropriation for the payment of claims of persons who suffered property damage, death, or personal injury due to the explosion at the naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, July 10, 1926.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sum of $59.53 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Comptroller General of the United States to make payment of the claim of J. Harvey Blanchard for property damage due to the explosion at the naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, July 10, 1926, as recommended by the Acting Comptroller General of the United States and as fully set forth in his letter of January 7, 1937, to the Congress pursuant to the
Act of March 2, 1927 (44 Stat. (pt. 3) 1800), and the Act of February 2, 1929 (45 Stat. (pt. 2) 2047): Provided, That no part of the amount
Provisos.
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
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 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: Provided, That any payment made hereunder
Payment to be in full settlement.
shall be accepted in full settlement of this claim against the United States.
Approved, June 28, 1937.