Private Law 87–546

That the Secretary

Lt. Don Walsh and Lt. Lawrence A. Shumaker.

of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lieutenant Don Walsh and to Lieutenant Lawrence A. Shumaker, the amount certified with respect to them by the Secretary of the Navy under section 2 of this Act: Provided That the payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Lieutenant Don Walsh and Lieutenant Lawrence A. Shumaker against the United States for hazardous duty pay for the period spent by them before July 12, 1960, as members of the crew of the bathyscaph Trieste.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Navy shall determine and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amounts which would have been payable to Lieutenant Don Walsh and Lieutenant Lawrence A. Shumaker as hazardous duty pay for the periods before July 12, 1960, during which each of them served aboard the bathyscaph Trieste if such service had been performed on board a submarine.

Sec. 3.

No part of either of the sums 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 the claim settled by the payment of such sum, 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.