Volume 50 · 871
Public Law 75–872
For the relief of former employees of the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corporations.
Approved August 28, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of former employees of the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corporations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in the case
Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corporation.
Former employees transferred to Interior Department; salary adjustment.
of any person who was employed by any corporation, all of the stock of which was owned by the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corporation of Delaware, and who was transferred to a position in the Department of the Interior with the same or substantially similar duties but at an increase in his rate of compensation, if there have been heretofore withheld or deducted from any amounts, otherwise payable to such person out of Government funds, any amount on account of any payment of salary to such person, subsequently disallowed or held to have been illegally made under any decision of the Comptroller General that such transfer to such position in the Department of the Interior constituted an administrative promotion within the provisions of section 7, as amended and extended, of the
Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to such person a sum equal to the amount so withheld or deducted.
Sec. 2.
Each person referred to in section 1, and each disbursing
Release at liability.
officer who made any payments of salary referred to in such section to any such person, is hereby released from any liability to refund or pay to the Government, or otherwise discharge, any amount on account of any such payment of salary to such person, subsequently disallowed or held to have been illegally made under any decision of the Comptroller General that the transfer of such person to such position in the Department of the Interior constituted an administrative promotion within the provisions of section 7, as amended and extended, of the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934, and no deduction shall be made from any amount due or payable out of Government funds to any such person or disbursing officer by reason of any such decision.
Approved, August 28, 1937.