Private Law 90–312

That Dwayne C. Cox and William D. Martin, employees of the Umatilla Army Depot, Department of the Army, Hermiston, Oregon, are hereby relieved of all liability for repayment to the United States of the sums of $1,216.80 and $1,810.40 representing gross salary overpayments to the said Dwayne C. Cox and William D. Martin, respectively, for the respective periods October 21, 1962, through June 11, 1966, and October 21, 1962, through July 9, 1966, as a result of administrative errors without fault or knowledge on their parts, in adjusting their salary rates under section 5(14 of the Federal Salary Reform Act of 1962 (76 Stat 84,5 U.S.C. 1173, 1964 ed.) and the regulations promulgated thereunder. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United States, full credit shall be allowed for the amounts for which liability is relieved by this section.

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The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said Dwayne C. Cox and William D. Martin, respectively, the sum of any amounts received or withheld from them by the United States from amounts otherwise due either of them from the United States, on account of the liabilities referred to in the first section of this Act. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with these claims, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any persons 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,