Private Law 89–363

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 each of the former members of the United States Navy Band named below, the sum of $25,000, representing the amount found by the United States Court of Claims (congressional numbered 11–60, decided December 11, 1964), pursuant to II. Res. 585, Eighty-sixth Congress, to be equitably due each such estate. The payment of such amount shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States of the estates of the following named former members of the United States Navy Band:

William Frederick Albrecht; Elmer Leroy Armiger; Henry Bein; Milton George Bergey; Robert Lisle Clark; Anthony Mathew D’Amico; Albert John Desiderio, Junior; Reyes Soto Gaglio, Junior; Richard David Harl; Gerald Richard Meier; Raymond Hector Micallef; James Alan Mohs; Walter Michel Penland; Earl Weston Richey; Jerome Rosenthal; Vincent Peter Tramontana; Roger Bruce Wilklow; Jefferson Bruce Young;

each sum to be paid as equitable relief in connection with the death of each such former member in the plane crash which occurred during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 25, 1960.

No part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 20 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.