Volume 82 · 1432
Private Law 90–349
For the relief of E, Christian Des Murets, Senior.
Approved October 12, 1968
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of E, Christian Des Murets, Senior.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That E. Christian
E. Christian Des Marets, Sr.
Des Marets, Senior, of Redlands, California, is relieved of liability to the United States in the amount of $805.61, representing amounts owing to the United States by reason of the shipment in 1956 from Burtonwood Air Force Base, England, to Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California, of his household goods that exceeded the weight limit of such goods which would be transported without cost to him by the United States under his United States Air Force travel orders even though representatives of the United States Air Force informed him before he left England that his household goods were within such weight limit. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United Stales, credit shall be given for amounts for which liability is relieved by this Act.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said E. Christian Des Marets, Senior, in full settlement of all his claims arising out of his payments to the United States Air Force toward the cost of shipment in 1956 of his household goods that exceeded the weight limit referred to in the first section of this Act, in the amount of $426.39 with respect to the shipment from Burtonwood Air Force Base, England, to Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California.
No part of the amount appropriated in subsection (a) of this section shall lie 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.
Approved October 12, 1968.