Volume 50
Private Law 75–94
To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men of the Navy for the value of personal effects destroyed in a fire in Building Numbered 125, United States Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, on July 16, 1935.
Approved April 14, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men of the Navy for the value of personal effects destroyed in a fire in Building Numbered 125, United States Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, on July 16, 1935.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $588.70, or such portion as may be necessary, to pay claims of enlisted men of the United States Navy for the value of personal effects destroyed as the result of a fire in Building Numbered 125, United States Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, on July 16, 1935: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall determine
Provisos.
Determination of amounts.
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
the amount to be paid hereunder to each claimant: And provided further, 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 agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claims. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be
Penalty for violation.
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined m any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved, April 14, 1937.