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Private Law 75–805
To provide an additional sum for the payment of claims under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and enlisted men or former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps for personal property lost, damaged, or destroyed as a result of the earthquake which occurred at Managua, Nicaragua, on March 31, 1931”, approved January 21, 1936 (49 Stat. 2212).
Approved August 25, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide an additional sum for the payment of claims under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and enlisted men or former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps for personal property lost, damaged, or destroyed as a result of the earthquake which occurred at Managua, Nicaragua, on March 31, 1931”, approved January 21, 1936 (49 Stat. 2212).
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Navy and Marine Corps.
Reimbursement of designated persons for personal property losses, Nicaragua earthquake, 1931.
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum or sums, amounting in the aggregate not to exceed $3,144.35, as may be required by the Secretary of the Navy to reimburse, after claimants shall have filed itemized statements showing actual damages sustained by proper appraisal, and under such regulations as he has or may prescribe pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved January 21, 1936 (49 Stat. 2212), Private Law Numbered
373, Seventy-fourth Congress, the persons hereafter named, in sums not exceeding the amounts set forth, for losses of and damages to reasonable and necessary personal property resulting from the earthquake which occurred at Managua, Nicaragua, on March 31, 1931: Mrs. Alice V. Baske, widow of the late Lieutenant Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, Medical Corps, United States Navy, $2,573; Radio Electrician Mack C. Veltman, United States Navy, $42.75; Harry Marion Mayfield, Chief Pharmacist’s Mate, United States Navy, $850; Captain Charles L. Fike, United States Marine
Proviso.
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
Corps, $528.60; in all, $3,144.35: 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 these claims, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary
Penalty for violation.
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, August 25, 1937.