Volume 86 · 1531
Private Law 92–74
For the relief of Roy E. Carroll.
Approved March 9, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of Roy E. Carroll.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Roy E. Carroll of Wellesley, Massachusetts, is relieved of liability to the United States in the amount of $1,365, representing the total amount of overpayments of active duty pay received by the said Roy E. Carroll during the period from February 1963, through October 1964, as a result of administrative error on the part of the Bureau of Naval Persoimel with respect to monthly allotments sent to the mother of the said Roy E. Carroil during such period. 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 Roy E. Carroll an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts paid by him, or with held 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 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 March 9, 1972.