Chapter 434. To provide for the payment of overtime claims of letter carriers excluded from judgment as barred by limitation
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CHAP. 434.— An Act To provide for the payment of overtime claims of letter carriers excluded from judgment as barred by limitation. June 25, 1910.[[S. 3638](/us/bill/61/s/3638).][[Public, No. 316](/us/pl/61/ 316).] *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 Letter carriers. Payment of claims for overtime under eight-hour law. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the several parties named in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and sixteen, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-eight, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, or their legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amounts set opposite each of their names, respectively, aggregating two hundred and eighty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents, and said sum Appropriation of two hundred and eighty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, representing services actually performed by them as letter carriel’s in excess of eight hours per day and reported by the commissioners of the Court of Claims as being the amounts due them under the provisions of the Act of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, Vol. 25, p. 157. entitled “An Act to limit the hours that letter carriers in cities shall be employed per day,” but which have been excluded or excepted from judgment for the sole reason that the same were barred by the statute of limitations: *Provided*, That no agent, attorney, firm of attorneys, *Proviso*.
Limit to attorneys’ fee. or other person engaged, heretofore or hereafter, in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting any claim or claims named in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and sixteen, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-eight, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, above referred to, shall directly or indirectly demand, receive, or retain for such service in preparing, 866 presenting, or prosecuting such claim, or for any service or act whatsoever in connection with such claim, a sum greater than five per centum Punishment for violations. of the amount of such claim, and any person who shall violate the above provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every offense, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Approved, June 25, 1910.