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Volume 50 · 1018

Private Law 75–454

For the relief of John L. Summers, former disbursing clerk, Treasury Department; and Frank White, G. F. Allen, H. T. Tate, and W. O. Woods, former Treasurers of the United States.

Approved July 8, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of John L. Summers, former disbursing clerk, Treasury Department; and Frank White, G. F. Allen, H. T. Tate, and W. O. Woods, former Treasurers of the United States.

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 the accounts of John L. Summers, former disbursing clerk, Treasury Department, with sums not exceeding $5,241.47 in the aggregate, covering disallowances in his accounts as a result of payments made by him during the period from August 1923 to December 1933.

Sec. 2.

That the Comptroller General of the United States be,

Frank White, and other former Treasurers of the United States.

Credit in accounts.

and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit the accounts of former Treasurers of the United States with sums not exceeding the following amounts, representing unavailable items in their accounts: Frank White, $57,507.72; G. F. Allen, $643; H. T. Tate, $14,664.94; and W. O. Woods, $107,833.29: Provided, That any recoveries heretofore

Proviso.

Application of any recoveries.

or hereafter made in respect of any of the foregoing items may, in the discretion of the Comptroller General, be applied to offset unavailable items of a similar character hereafter arising in the accounts of the former Treasurer to whose account the recovery pertains, upon a showing that such unavailable items have occurred without fault or negligence on the part of said former Treasurer.

Approved, July 8, 1937.

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