Private Law 81–42

notwithstanding the provisions of Public Law 600, Seventy-ninth Congress,

3 U. S. C. § 43; 5 U. S. C. §§ 22a, 55a, 73a-73b–4, 77, 78, 95a, 110a, 118d–1, 118g, 823 note; Sup. Ill, § 73a et seq.; 19 U. S. C. § 1645; 31 U. S. C. § 529; 41 U. S. C., Sup. III. § 5; 44 U. S. C. § 321.

Ante, pp. 590, 985.

approved August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 806), the Postmaster General is authorized and directed to pay, out of the appropriation otherwise available for the reimbursement of expenses incurred in traveling and moving household effects by employees of the Railway Mail Service of the Post Office Department, to the persons named in subsection (b) hereof, such amounts for expenses as were incurred by them in connection with their transfer from one duty station to another on orders of officials of the Surface Postal Transport Division between the dates indicated following the names of each of such persons: Provided, That the amounts to be paid shall in each case be subject to administrative determination by the Post Office Department and audit by the General Accounting Office: Provided further, That no part of the respective amounts authorized to be paid by 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 the claim of any person hereinafter named, 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.

James H. Barrow, for expenses incurred between December 3, 1945, and July 23, 1947; Walter L. Robinson, Junior, for expenses incurred between April 20, 1947, and November 3, 1947; Allyn W. Reimund, for expenses incurred between July 24, 1947, and November 25, 1947; Walter E. Patterson, for expenses incurred between July 6, 1947, and November 9, 1947; Harold L. Marsh, for expenses incurred between February 3, 1947, and June 3, 1947; Malcolm R. Clark, for expenses incurred between August 14, 1947, and December 16, 1947; Marshall B. McRee, for expenses incurred between October 12, 1947, and February 13, 1948; Charles L. Leffingwell, for expenses incurred between July 28, 1947, and March 3, 1948; Eugene Attkisson, for expenses incurred between November 23, 1947, and October 1, 1948.