Private Law 89–443

That the Secretary

Tri-States Construction Co. Inc.

of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $42,400 to the Tri-States Construction Company, Incorporated, a Florida corporation, which sum was determined by the Court of Claims in Congressional Case numbered 3–59, decided December 17, 1965. to be the amount equitably due that corporation as reimbursement for a 15 per centum overrun in the amount of trees and brush cleared under a lump sum contract. 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.