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Volume 50 · 804

Public Law 75–767

Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers for overpayments of wages on Civil Works Administration projects and waiving recovery of such overpayments.

Approved August 25, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers for overpayments of wages on Civil Works Administration projects and waiving recovery of such overpayments.

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 allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers for any overpayment of wages heretofore made to or on behalf of any person for services rendered in connection with any project under the Federal Civil Works Administration, nothing to suggest fraud

Recovery waived.

appearing, and in such cases where credit is allowed in the accounts of the disbursing officer under this Act no recovery shall be required from the person receiving the overpayment.

Approved, August 25, 1937.

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