Private Law 76–629

That the Comptroller

James W. Gilson.

Credit in postal accounts.

General is authorized and directed to credit the account of James W. Gilson, former postmaster at Hartford, Connecticut, in the sum of $682.64. Such sum represents the balance of a shortage in such account caused by the embezzlement of post-office funds by

Credit of any recovery hereafter made.

one of the postal clerks at such post office. Any recovery hereafter made by the Government in respect of such shortage may, in the discretion of the Comptroller General, be credited to the account of such former postmaster in the event that any additional shortage in his account is disclosed, if such additional shortage has occurred without fault or negligence on the part of such former postmaster.