Private Law 82–177

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to B. H. Manley, Beech Grove, Coffee County, Tennessee, the sum of $1,478.50. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said B. H. Manley against the United States for compensation for losses he sustained when his barn and its contents, including livestock, were destroyed by a fire on April 8, 1943, which was ignited while members of the United States Army on Army maneuvers were sleeping in such barn: 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.