Volume 53
Public Law 76–60
To authorize and direct the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit for all outstanding disallowances and suspensions in the accounts of the disbursing officers or agents of the Government for payments made to certain employees appointed by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission.
Approved April 12, 1939
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 the disbursing officers or agents of the Government for payments made to certain employees appointed by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding
U. S. Employees’ Compensation Commission.
47 Stat. 403, 1513.
the provisions of section 203 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 403), as continued in effect during the fiscal years 1934 and 1935 by section 4 (a) of the Act of March 3, 1933 (47 Stat. 1513), and section 24 of the Act of March 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 522), the
Allowance of credit for payments to certain employees.
Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to allow credit for all otherwise proper payments made to employees appointed by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, without approval by the President of the United States, to fill vacancies resulting from the advancement of employees of lower grades in connection with the filling of a vacancy which the President had authorized to be filled; and no amount so paid shall be charged
Accountability.
against or recovered from the employees to whom such payments were made.
Approved, April 12, 1939.