Private Law 84–451

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Thomas F. Harney, Junior, doing business as the Harney Engineering Company, the sum of $13,439.84. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of said Thomas F. Harney, Junior, for alleged losses suffered by him as the plumbing and heating subcontractor under two lump-sum contracts between the United States, acting through the Army Quartermaster Corps, and D. A. Sullivan and Sons, Incorporated, which provided for the construction of building installations including thirty barracks at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, during the fall and winter of 1940–1941, the United States Court of Claims (congressional numbers 17860 and 17861, decided July 13, 1954, pursuant to S. Res. 152 and 165, Eighty-first Congress, first session) having found that the United States received substantial benefits from the work and efforts of claimant: 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.