Volume 50 · 927
Private Law 75–39
For the relief of Fields B. Arthur and Arthur L. Allen, copartners, Colorado Culvert and Flume Company; Glen Haller, Kenneth Austin, A. B. Hoffman, J. W. Jones, and Lloyd Lasswell.
Approved March 11, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of Fields B. Arthur and Arthur L. Allen, copartners, Colorado Culvert and Flume Company; Glen Haller, Kenneth Austin, A. B. Hoffman, J. W. Jones, and Lloyd Lasswell.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to settle and adjust the following claims of creditors who furnished services or supplies to E. M. Harris and Sons, Sugar City, Colorado, under their contract, Als–3951, dated July 18, 1929, for the construction of the Blue Lake Road, extension numbered 584, within the San Isabel National Forest, Huerfano County, Colorado, and who were prevented from bringing a timely suit under the provisions of the Act of August 13, 1894, as amended (33 Stat. 811), against the
surety of said E. M. Harris and Sons, after their default in the performance of said contract, by the Government’s failure to notify them of the final settlement date of said contract:
Fields B. Arthur and Arthur L. Allen, copartners, doing business as Arthur and Allen, in a sum not exceeding $1,004.67;
Colorado Culvert and Flume Company, in a sum not exceeding $596.51;
Glen Haller, in a sum not exceeding $247.60;
Kenneth Austin, in a sum not exceeding $110;
A. B. Hoffman, in a sum not exceeding $66.35;
J. W. Jones, in a sum not exceeding $43; and
Lloyd Lasswell, in a sum not exceeding $22.
Sec. 2.
There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the
Appropriation.
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,090.13, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay said claims.
Sec. 3.
No part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
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 person violating the provisions of
Penalty for violation.
this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved, March 11, 1937.