Private Law 81–34

That Edwin B. Anderson, a city letter carrier in the post office at Newton, Iowa, is hereby relieved of all liability to make refund to the United States of any amount received by him as a result of overpayment of salary from May 1, 1945, the date he was promoted from substitute postal employee to the position of regular city letter carrier by the postmaster at Newton, Iowa, to October 16, 1946, the effective date of his promotion to regular city letter carrier as authorized by the Post Office Department.

Any amount heretofore refunded to the United States by Edwin B. Anderson, or by any other person or persons on account of such overpayment of salary to Edwin B. Anderson, shall be refunded to him, or to such other person or persons, out of any money available for the payment of salaries to city delivery carriers. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any postmaster or other designated disbursing officer of the Post Office Department or postal service, the salary payments to Edwin B. Anderson from May 1, 1945, to October 16, 1946, for service as regular city letter carrier shall be considered to have been authorized: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.