Volume 53
Private Law 76–496
For the relief of the Rent-A-Car Company.
Approved August 5, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the Rent-A-Car Company.
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 is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Rent-A-Car Company, of Memphis, Tennessee, the sum of $144.80, in full satisfaction of its claim against the United States, for reimbursement of expenses incurred in repairing an automobile rented on November 14, 1933, by a special agent of the Department of Justice and damaged while
Proviso.
Limitation on attorney’s, etc., fees.
being used by such person on official business: 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 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 5, 1939.