Volume 63
Private Law 81–324
For the relief of the estate of Rafael Rebollo.
Approved July 13, 1949
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the estate of Rafael Rebollo.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Rafael Rebollo, estate.
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $5,000 to the administrator of the estate of the late Rafael Rebollo, who was killed on August 17, 1943, when struck in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, by a Government truck operated by a project employee on the work-relief program in Puerto Rico under the Federal Works Agency. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of such accident: 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 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 July 13, 1949.