Private Law 74–879

That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, and directed to receive and settle the claims of Edward A. Foote, Junior, Durham E. Allen, Daniel L. Boland, Eugene A. Bond, Emanuel Bublick, W. Earle Butler, James J. Caffrey, Bernard B. Carraher, E. Hubert Cashion, John Darsey, A. W. DeBirney, Charles D. Dimmock, George Foulkes, C. A. Giblin, W. H. Griffin, Frank Hursey, James W. Irwin, Fred M. Ivey, Arthur F. McCarthy, Edward A. Mag, Reuben J. Martin, L. W. C. Mather, Daniel J. Murphy, William L. Pencke, Edgar W. Pharr, Earle Boyd Pierce, James F. Pinkney, James I. Rooney, J. Carlisle Stuckey, Morris Weinfeld, Patrick A. Conway, Samuel E. Ewing, Junior, Richard W. Fuchs, Robert S. Keebler, Dallas C. Kirby, Robert W. Strange, Fred A. Weller, Thomas R. Vaughan, John Grigsby, and Curley C. Hoffpauir for transportation, travel, and subsistence expenses during the period from December 1934 to June 1935, upon their transfer and assignment to temporary or permanent stations and to allow, if otherwise correct, per diem not exceeding thirty days after arrival at station, notwithstanding the travel orders were not issued by proper authority and the change of stations was permanent and not temporary. All such claims allowed shall be payable under the appropriation

Funds available.

otherwise available for such expenditures for the fiscal year in which the obligation was incurred: Provided, That there shall be a sufficient

Proviso.

Appropriation to meet any deficiency.

sum available under such appropriation to settle such claims which may be found allowable; otherwise, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum of money to meet the difference.

Sec. 2.

In case there has been heretofore withheld or deducted from

Payment of withheld amounts.

any amounts otherwise payable out of Government funds to any person hereinabove named any amount on account of any item paid or allowed for transportation charges in connection with the transfer and assignment hereinabove referred to, the Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to pay, in accordance with the same provisions as outlined in section 1, to such person a sum equal to the amount so withheld or deducted.

Sec. 3.

Each person named in section 1 of this Act is hereby

Claimants released from any liability to refund.

released from any liability to refund or pay to the Government, or otherwise discharge, any item paid or allowed for transportation charges in connection with the transfer and assignment referred to in such section, and no deductions on account of any such item shall be made from any amount due or payable out of Government funds to any such person.