Volume 73 · A101
Private Law 86–230
For the relief of the estate of Willard Phillips.
Approved September 22, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the estate of Willard Phillips.
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 the estate of Willard Phillips, Coalinga, California, the sum of $10,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of such estate against the United States for compensation for the death of the said Willard Phillips, who was drowned in the Cumberland River near Woods Ferry Landing, Gallatin, Tennessee, on August 7, 1954, as the result of an accident involving a United States Corps of Engineers river inspection boat, the Clermont. Such claims are not cognizable under the tort claims procedure as provided in title 28, United States Code:
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 or a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved September 22, 1959.