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Private Law 74–135
For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department.
Approved March 10, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the following disbursing officers of the Army of the United States the amounts set opposite their names: Major Stephen R. Beard, Finance Department, $28; Captain Lester L. Boggs, Finance Department, $72; Major Walter D. Dabney, Finance Department, $17; Major Horace G. Foster, Finance Department, $45 and $50; Captain Columbus B. Lenow, Finance Department, $30; Major D. W. Morey, Finance Department, $60; and Major Arthur O. Walsh, Finance Department, $30; said amounts being public funds for which they are accountable and which comprise minor errors in computation of pay and allowances due former members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, who are no longer enrolled in that corps, and which amounts have been
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disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States: Provided, That no part of the amounts so credited shall be later charged against any individual other than the various payees.
Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Captain Biglow 11 So in original. B. Barbee, Finance Department, the sum of $81; Captain Jefferson E. Kidd, Infantry Reserve, the sum of $81; Second Lieutenant Francis T. Pachler, United States Infantry, the sum of $10; Captain Carl M. Innis, United States Infantry, the sum of $12.50; and Second Lieutenant Robert V. Klepinger, Field Artillery Reserve, the sum of $12.50, or so much of said sums as shall have been collected from them prior to the approval of this Act, representing refundments of overpayments made Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees and allottees, the collection of which amounts cannot be effected from the persons
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to whom such erroneous payments have been made: Provided, That no part of these amounts shall be charged to any person other than the payees.
Sec. 3.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Captain Charles K. McAlister, Finance Department, the sum of $147.73, public funds for which he is accountable and which represents overpayments made to several members of the Civilian Con-servation Corps who are no longer enrolled in that corps and from whom collection cannot be effected.
Sec. 4.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and
Capt. Bigelow B. Barbee and Major John H. Harrington.
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he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the following disbursing officers of the United States the amounts set opposite their names: Captain Bigelow11 So in original. B. Barbee, Finance Department, $81.50, and Major John H. Harrington (Coast Artillery Corps), Finance Department, $98.16, being public funds for which they are accountable and which were paid by them for medical expenses and burial expenses of a child killed as a result of an automobile accident involving a Civilian Conservation Corps truck, and which amounts have been disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Sec. 5.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and
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he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Captain Clarence A. Frank, Finance Department, $45.83; Captain Charles W. Hensey, Finance Department, $12; Major Royal G. Jenks, Finance Department, $9.40; Major James A. Marmon, Finance Department, $10.75; Major Cherubusco Newton, Junior, Finance Department, $8.52; Major Frank E. Parker, Finance Department, $76.51; Major Bickford E. Sawyer, Finance Department, $12; and Major John L. Tunstall, Finance Department, $132.96, being public funds for which they are accountable and which comprise minor errors in computation of pay and allowances due military personnel who are no longer in the service of the United States, and which amounts have been disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Sec. 6.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and
Major Frank Brezina.
Credit allowed in accounts.
he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Major Frank Brezina, Philippine Scouts, Quartermaster Corps, $22.83, public funds for which he is accountable and which represent payments on account of rental due Teesdale, Newman and Company, Shanghai, China, and which amount has been disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Sec. 7.
That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and
Capt. Robert W. Yates.
Credit allowed in accounts.
he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Captain Robert W. Yates, Field Artillery, the sum of $38, public funds for which he is accountable and which were paid by him to Major Robert B. Laing, Infantry Reserve, for commutation of quarters and which amount was disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States: Provided, That the amounts so paid shall
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not be charged against any moneys otherwise due the payee.
Approved, March 10, 1936.