Volume 84 · 2156
Private Law 91–203
For the relief of certain employees of the Department of Defense.
Approved December 11, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of certain employees of the Department of Defense.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
each of the
Sarah L. Botsai and others.
following-named persons is relieved of liability to the United States in the amount which appears beside his name:
| Sarah L. Botsai | $100.00 |
| Ouida Bankston | 100.00 |
| William Hood | 1,052.98 |
| James Child | 268.93 |
| Ronald Roth | 589.30 |
| Dexter Brown | 146.50 |
| Susan Groswith | 100.00 |
| Mary Kubal | 100.00 |
| Michael Madore | 238.75 |
| Diana Hensley | 200.00 |
| Robert Tarr | 254.25 |
| John Mollick | 398.56 |
| Howard Sargent | 563.06 |
| Alien P. Alsop | 591.76 |
| John Rowland | 600.56 |
| Carolyn Discbert | 100.00 |
| Alan Koseff | 373.18 |
| Thomas Orr | 401.10 |
| Samuel Raskin | 384.50 |
Such amounts represent overpayments of travel, transportation, and other related expenses made, as a result of an administrative error, to the above named civilian employees of the Department of Defense during the years 1966, 1967, and 1968. 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.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each person named in the first section of this Act an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts paid by him. or withheld from sums otherwise due him, with respect to his indebtedness to the United States specified in such section.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the following individuals the sums listed after their names in full settlement of all their claims against the United States for reimbursement, of certain travel expenses incurred in connection with travel pursuant to travel orders issued in 1966, 1967, and 1968:
| James Child | $247.00 |
| Carolyn Dischert | 190.97 |
| Alan Koseff | 543.20 |
| Thomas Orr | 382.00 |
| Samuel Raskin | 492.00 |
| James R. Duncan | 342.58 |
| Robert E. Eckert | 412.63 |
Sec. 3.
No part of the amount appropriated in subsection (b) of the first section of this Act or in section 2 of this Act, for the payment of any one claim in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall lie 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.
Approved December 11, 1970.