Volume 53 · 1493
Private Law 76–460
For the relief of Jesse Claud Branson.
Approved August 5, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of Jesse Claud Branson.
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, to Jesse Claud Branson, of Kansas City, Missouri, the sum of $3,000. Said sum shall be in full settlement of his claim against the United States on account of damages sustained by him when he was injured and his automobile damaged by a United States rural mail carrier’s automobile in a collision at the intersection of a side road with United States Route Numbered 50, about two miles east of Walton, Kansas, on April 29, 1937: Provided, That no part of the amount
Proviso.
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.
Approved, August 5, 1939.