Private Law 89–254

That each individual

Howard Meister and others.

named in section 3 of this Act is relieved of liability to pay to the United States the amount set forth opposite his name, which amount represents an erroneous payment of compensation received by him during the period April through October 1964, as an employee in the postal field service of the Post Office Department at Eau Gallie, Florida, and was erroneously paid to him due to administrative error.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each individual named in section 3 of this Act, the sum certified to him by the Postmaster General as the aggregate of amounts paid by such individual to the United States, or withheld from amounts due him from the United States, on account of the liability for which relief is granted by the first section of this Act.

Sec. 3.

The individuals referred to in the first section of this Act, and the amount of the liability of each of them, are as follows:

Sec. 4.

No part of the amount appropriated in this Act for the payment of any claim shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with such claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.