Public Law 82–232

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the town of Mount Desert, Maine, the sum of $26,986.60. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of such town against the United States for reimbursement of expenditures made by such town in combating a forest fire in the Acadia National Park from October 24, 1947, to November 1, 1947: 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.