Private Law 85–361

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ralph H. Weeks, the sum of $1,998.70. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of such person against the United States for payment for damages to his personal effects, alleged to have been sustained while being shipped on the steamship Alaska at Government expense, as an employee of the Department of the Interior, on February 2, 1947, on which date said ship was wrecked: 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.