Volume 82 · 1433
Private Law 90–351
For the relief of Lieutenant (junior grade) Herbert F. Swanson, and others.
Approved October 12, 1968
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of Lieutenant (junior grade) Herbert F. Swanson, and others.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That each of the following-named officers are relieved of liability to the United States in the amount set opposite their respective names, representing overpayments of Navy salary received due to an administrative error and through no fault of the individual officers during the period beginning July 3, 1967, and ending October 2, 1967, while serving aboard a United States submarine:
| Lieutenant (junior grade) Herbert F. Swanson | $304.17 |
| Lieutenant (Junior grade) John C. Markowicz | 270.83 |
| Lieutenant (junior grade) John T. Cox | 270.83 |
| Lieutenant (junior grade) George T. Ankrum | 346.67 |
| Lieutenant (junior grade) (Jerald E. Sheldon | 325.00 |
| Lieutenant Crispin W. Thiessen, united States Navy | 495.00 |
| Lieutenant Thomas Wesley McClure, United States Navy | 540.00 |
| Lieutenant (junior grade) James Jay Evans, United States Navy | 417.50 |
| Lieutenant (junior grade) Frederick Morgan Berthrong, United States Navy | 329.17 |
In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United States, credit shall be given for amounts for which liability is relieved by this section.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized anti directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to any of the officers named in section 1 of this Act an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts paid by the officer, or withheld from sums otherwise due the individual officer, with respect to the indebtedness to the United States specified in the first section of this Act.
No part of the amount appropriated in subsection (a) of this section shall be 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 subsection 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.