Volume 84
Private Law 91–131
For the relief of the Clayton County Journal and Wilber Harris.
Approved August 17, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the Clayton County Journal and Wilber Harris.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Clayton County Journal of Jonesboro, Georgia, is hereby relieved of all liability for repayment to the United States of the sum of $1,506.49, representing additional postage due on copies of such Journal mailed during the period from January 1967, through July 1967, as a result of the assessment of postage at incorrect rates by officials of the Post Office Department.
Sec. 2.
Wilber Harris, of Jonesboro, Georgia, is hereby relieved of all liability for repayment to the United States of the sum of $1,506.49, representing the amount of a postage deficiency charged his account as postmaster of Jonesboro, Georgia, for failure to collect the correct, postage from the Clayton County Journal.
Sec. 3.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Clayton County Journal and Wilber Harris the sum of any amounts received from them on account of the postage deficiency referred to in the first and second sections of this Act.
No part of any amount appropriated in this section 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 person violating the. provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall lie fined any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved August 17, 1970.