Volume 45
Private Law 70–600
For the relief of lieutenant John J. Powers, Quartermaster Corps.
Approved March 2, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of lieutenant John J. Powers, Quartermaster Corps.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Lieutenant John J. Powers, Army.
Credit allowed in accounts of, for stolen funds.
of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed in the administration of the Act of August 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 635), to credit the account of Lieutenant John J. Powers, Quartermaster Corps, as commissary officer at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, in the total sum of $705.80, representing proceeds of sales of subsistence supplies, for which he was held responsible, and which were embezzled by Sergeant James F. Cottingham, Quartermaster Corps, R–757447, United States Army, who deserted the service.
Approved, March 2, 1929.