Private Law 91–115

That the Secretary

Kimball Brothers Lumber Co.

of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Kimball Brothers Lumber Company, of Dexter, Oregon, a partnership composed of Clyde K. Kimball, Clayton Kimball, Kendall V. Kimball, Edgar Dowdy, and Arthur Lindley, the sum of $13,726.62. The payment of such sum shall be in full satisfaction of all claims of such partnership against the United States for certain expenses incurred by it under a timber sale contract numbered 18–997 entered into between such partnership and the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, on November 23, 1965, one of the terms of which required such partnership to construct a permanent road through the lands to be timbered, the cost of such road to be offset against the price charged for the timber in accordance with a formula prescribed in the contract, such contract having been subsequently canceled by the mutual consent of both parties after fire destroyed most of the timber before it was removed, but after the road had been constructed by such partnership at its own expense.

Sec. 2.

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 section shall lie deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined hi any sum not exceeding $1,000.