Skip to content

Volume 68

Private Law 83–664

For the relief of William B. Baker and Don P. Fankhauser.

Approved August 16, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of William B. Baker and Don P. Fankhauser.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to William B. Baker, of Seattle, Washington, the sum of $64.25 and to Don P. Fankhauser, of Alexandria, Virginia, the sum of $72 in full satisfaction of all claims of the said claimants against the United States for reimbursement for personal property lost when the boat they were using in the course of their duties as fishery aides for the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, capsized during a storm while tied up off False Point Pybus, Admiralty Island, Alaska, on August 26, 1950, without fault on their part: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act 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 August 16, 1954.

Parsed from the official Statutes at Large USLM XML in 68.xml