Volume 68 · 65
Public Law 83–347
To extend to the Canal Zone Government and the Panama Canal Company provisions of the act entitled “An Act to facilitate the settlement of the accounts of certain deceased civilian officers and employees of the Government,” approved August 3, 1950.
Approved April 30, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend to the Canal Zone Government and the Panama Canal Company provisions of the act entitled “An Act to facilitate the settlement of the accounts of certain deceased civilian officers and employees of the Government,” approved August 3, 1950.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (b) of section 3 of the Act of August 3, 1950 (Public Law 636, Eighty-first Congress), is amended to read as follows:
“(b) Accounts not payable under section 3 (a) (with the exception of accounts of employees of the District of Columbia which shall be paid by the District of Columbia, accounts of employees of the Canal Zone Government on the Isthmus of Panama which shall be paid by the Canal Zone Government, and accounts of employees of wholly owned and mixed-ownership Government corporations which may be paid by such corporations) shall be payable on settlement of the General Accounting Office except as the Comptroller General may by regulation otherwise authorize or direct”.
Sec. 2.
Section 7 of the said Act of August 3, 1950, is amended by
deleting the words: “to the accounts of officers and employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad on the Isthmus of Panama, or”.
Sec. 3.
This amendatory Act shall be effective two months from the
Effective date.
date of its enactment as of which time section 84 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, as added by section 1 of the Act of August 10, 1949 (ch. 415,63 Stat. 593), is repealed.
Approved April 30, 1954.