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Volume 84

Private Law 91–239

For the relief of Jack B. Smith and Charles N. Martin, Junior.

Approved December 31, 1970

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of Jack B. Smith and Charles N. Martin, Junior.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That Jack B. Smith,

Jack B. Smith and Chariest N, Martin, Jr.

postmaster, and Charles N. Martin, Junior, publisher of Atlanta’s Suburban Reporter of Atlanta, Georgia, are relieved of liability to the United States in the amount of $3,572.18, an amount claimed to lie due by the Post Office Department for revenue deficiencies resulting from errors in postage on second-class material at the post office at East Point, Georgia, in the period from July, 1964 through 1967, inasmuch as the material which should have been rated second-class and receive second-class service, was on instructions from the Post Office Department and Postmaster, rated, handled and transmitted as third-class material and did not at any time receive second-class treatment.

Sec. 2.

Charles N. Martin, Junior is hereby relieved of the obligation of $3,572,18, which represents the diferrential between second-class and third-class service, and Jack B. Smith, postmaster, is likewise relieved of any obligation related thereto, and the Post Office Department is further instructed to make the necessary bookkeeping entries to remove this item as an amount due inasmuch as second-class service was never rendered.

Approved December 31, 1970.

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