Volume 86
Private Law 92–123
For the relief of David Capps, formerly a corporal in the United States Marine Corps.
Approved September 19, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of David Capps, formerly a corporal in the United States Marine Corps.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That David Capps,
David Capps.
of Newport News, Virginia, formerly a corporal in the United States Marine Corps, is relieved of liability to the United States in the amount of $133.75, representing the overpayments of military pay for the period beginning with July 1968, and ending November 1968, and including the amount receiveci on payroll numbered 524, as a result of an administrative error and through no fault of his own. 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 and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said David Capps, an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts paid by him, or withheld from sums otherwise due him, 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 unlawfid, 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 September 19, 1972.