Volume 97 · 1486
Private Law 98–5
For the relief of James A. Ferguson.
Approved November 29, 1983
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of James A. Ferguson.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That James A. Ferguson of San Antonio, Texas, is relieved of all liability to the United States in the amount of $1,912.16 which represents the amount claimed to be overpaid to him when, because he was misinformed by the United States Air Force concerning the limitation on federally compensable moving expenditures contained in the last sentence of section 5724(b) of title 5, United States Code, he expended sums from his travel advance in excess of that limitation to cover the costs of commercially transporting his mobile home to his new permanent duty station in 1978.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James A. Ferguson an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts paid by him, or withheld from sums otherwise due him, in complete or partial satisfaction of the liability to the United States specified in the first section.
No more than 10 per centum of the amount appropriated in subsection (a) shall be paid to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with the
Violation.
liability dealt with in this Act. Any person violating the provisions of this subsection shall be fined not more than $1,000.
Approved November 29, 1983.