Private Law 76–277

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company of New York, New York,, the sum of $2,598.86, in full satisfaction of its claim against the United States for reimbursement of expenses incurred in rebuilding and restoring a thirty-wire crossing over the Delaware River between Raven Rock, New Jersey, and Lumberville, Pennsylvania, which was demolished and knocked into the Delaware River by a United States 046 Army observation plane, on February 19, 1937, while engaged in making a flight

Proviso.

Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.

over the Delaware River: 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 this claim, and the same shall

Penalty for violation.

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.