Volume 52 · 775
Public Law 75–517
For the relief of certain persons at certain projects of the Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Approved June 16, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of certain persons at certain projects of the Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in the case of any person who was employed prior to June 30, 1935, at one of the following projects of the Farm Security Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture, formerly under the jurisdiction of the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the United States Department of the Interior: Cumberland Homesteads, Crossville, Tennessee; Tygart Valley Homesteads, Elkins, West Virginia; Westmoreland Homesteads, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and from whose wages there have been withheld any sums in pursuance of the operation of a so-called credit hour system at such projects, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to such person, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the certification of the Secretary of Agriculture, a sum equal to the
Proviso.
Deductions.
amounts so withheld: Provided, however, That there shall be deducted from such payments (for disposition as receipts derived from the operation of projects, as authorized by section 3 of the Act of June
40 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 433.
29, 1936 (49 Stat. 2035), the amounts, as certified by the Secretary of Agriculture, of any current indebtedness to the United States in connection with such projects, and of any past indebtedness for which credit has been allowed to such person in the form of rent for occupancy or payments toward the purchase price of any homestead at such projects: Provided further, That in the case of any such person
Separations, deductions from payments.
who has voluntarily withdrawn or has been dismissed from one of such projects, and who has received any cash settlement on account of accrued credit hours, there shall be deducted from such payments a sum equal to the amount of such cash settlement.
Approved, June 16, 1938.