Private Law 81–978

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to the Fisher Brewing Company, of Salt Lake City, Utah, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,200, representing the amount paid for four fermented malt liquor stamps of the one-hundred-barrel denomination which were lost between the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue and the office of the Fisher Brewing Company by the said company: Provided, That the Fisher Brewing Company shall first file in the Treasury Department a bond in the penal sum of double the amount paid for such stamps, in such form and with such surety or sureties as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Treasury, to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any loss on account of the stamps herein described: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in the Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of the 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 m any sum not exceeding $1,000.