Volume 50
Public Law 75–593
To authorize and direct the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit for all outstanding disallowances and suspensions in the accounts of disbursing officers or agents of the Government for payments made pursuant to certain adjustments and increases in compensation of Government officers and employees.
Approved August 12, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize and direct the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit for all outstanding disallowances and suspensions in the accounts of disbursing officers or agents of the Government for payments made pursuant to certain adjustments and increases in compensation of Government officers and employees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding any provisions of section 7 of the Act of March 3, 1933, as amended and extended, the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to allow credit for all outstanding disallowances and suspensions in the accounts of any disbursing officer or agent for payments made pursuant to adjustments and increases in compensation of officers and employees of any executive department, independent establishment, or other agency of the United States made or granted during or for the fiscal years ended June 30, 1934, and June 30, 1935, pursuant to the provisions of Executive Order Numbered 6746 of June 21, 1934, and Executive orders which that order superseded, in all cases in which the compensation of such officers or
Release of accountability.
employees was paid out of emergency appropriations; and no amounts so paid and not heretofore recovered shall be charged against the payees on account of said payments.
Approved, August 12, 1937.