Volume 58 · 1057
Private Law 78–545
To provide for reimbursement of certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for personal property lost or damaged as the result of fire at the naval advance base depot, Port Hueneme, California, on January 12, 1944.
Approved December 7, 1944
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for reimbursement of certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for personal property lost or damaged as the result of fire at the naval advance base depot, Port Hueneme, California, on January 12, 1944.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Navy personnel and former Navy personnel.
Reimbursement.
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 $1,599.54, as may be required by the Secretary of the Navy to reimburse, under such regulations as he may prescribe, certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for the value of personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire in quarters occupied by said personnel at the naval advance base depot, Port Hueneme, California, on January 12, 1944: Provided, That in the case of the death of any claimant, payment may be made to the relative designated by the Secretary of the Navy: 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 attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall 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.
Approved December 7, 1944.