Private Law 83–302

That the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to adjust and settle the claim of the Bracey-Welsh Company, Incorporated, for services rendered in connection with the burial on July 28, 1950, of four unidentified bodies, the remains of persons killed as a result of an aviation accident on July 23, 1950, near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and to allow in full and final settlement of said claim an amount not in excess of $120 to such claimant. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $120, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of such claim: 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.