Private Law 85–694

That the Secretary

Mrs. Sumpter Smith.

of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Sumpter Smith, Birmingham, Alabama, the amount certified by the Secretary of Commerce under section 2. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Mrs. Sumpter Smith against the United States for 68 days and 30 minutes of accumulated and accrued annual leave of her husband as an employee of the United States, which was forfeited by him when he resigned from his permanent position with the Civil Aeronautics Authority to accept a temporary appointment on November 3, 1939: 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.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of Commerce shall determine and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount which would have been paid to the husband of the said Mrs. Sumpter Smith under the Act of April 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 200) pursuant to his application therefor on

5 USC 61a.

January 31, 1942, if the accumulated and accrued annual leave which he forfeited upon his resignation on November 30, 1939, from his permanent position with the Civil Aeronautics Authority had been validly transferred to his temporary appointment and reappointment as Special Airport Adviser to the Administrator, Civil Aeronautics Authority, Department of Commerce.