Volume 45
Private Law 70–658
To reimburse or compensate Captain John W. Elkins, junior, for part of salary retained by War Department and money turned over to same by him.
Approved March 2, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
To reimburse or compensate Captain John W. Elkins, junior, for part of salary retained by War Department and money turned over to same by him.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Captain John W. Elkins, junior, Army.
Payment to, for withheld salary.
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to John W. Elkins, junior, former recreation officer at Fort Benning, Georgia, but now a captain in the United States Army at Davidson, North Carolina, the sum of $940, the same being in full compensation of the amount remaining due on his salary because of the stoppage of pay arising out of a shortage found in the motionpicture fund at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1924, due to embezzlement by a subordinate officer.
Approved, March 2, 1929.