Volume 82 · 1406
Private Law 90–288
For the relief of John M. Stevens.
Approved July 5, 1968
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of John M. Stevens.
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 Joseph Bruno the sum of $750 in full settlement of his claims against the United States and John M. Stevens of Paterson, New Jersey, based upon an accident involving a United States mail truck operated by John M. Stevens which occurred on November 11, 1960, and such payment shall be in full and final satisfaction of the judgment rendered against, the said John M. Stevens on April 4, 1967, in the Passaic County District Court based upon the same accident. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 25 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 lined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved July 5, 1968.