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2142 74TH COXGRESS. SESS. I . CHS. 542, 543. AUGUST 14,1935. States, to Lewis Worthy, private (1599113), $211.96, and Dennis O. Penn, private (1599044), $213.97, being amount of salary deducted a:::·ion ttor on account of general court-martial sentences June 1918: Provided, aeTS, ~.• f~~ a • That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received. by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of servIces rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, with- hold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection wlth said claim, any contract to the contrary notwith- PenaJtyforvloiation. standing. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined III any sum not exceeding $1,000. AU@!St 14. 1935. [S.21611 .] (Private, No. 220 .] Approved, August 14, 1935. [CHAPTER 543.) AN ACT For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Anny of the United States. .. Be it enacted by the Senate and H OURe of Repre8entatives of the Army dlSbursmg of· United States of America in Congress assembled That the Comp- ~nidite.llO~ed~1IC- troller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized ClOWltscfdes na • and directed to credit in the accounts of Captain T. H . Chambers, Finance Department, $24.96; Major H. G. Coykendall, Finance Department, $15.40; Captain H. R . Lovell, Finance Department, $21; Captain Jacob R. McNeil, Finance Department, $1.50; Major E. C . Morton, Finance Department, $14.97; Major T. S. Pugh, Finance Department, $21.03; and Major Lee R. 'Vatrous, Finance Department, $9.46; Captain H. S. Farish, Finance Department, $3.80, said amounts being public funds for which they are account- able and which comprise minor errors in computation of pay and allowances due military personnel, who are no longer in the service of the United States, and which amounts have been disallowed by E. c. Morton. Frank E. Parker. the Comptroller General of the United States. SEC. 2 . That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorIzed and directed to credit in the accounts of Major E. C . Morton, Finance Department, $170.81, representing payment made in error to an officer of the Army, who has since resigned the service, during the period in which he was absent on ('xcessive leave. SEC. 3. That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby;.. authorIzed and directed to credit in the accounts of Major Frank J:1.i. Parker, Finance Department, the sum of $146.96, public funds for which he is accountable and which were stolen on the night of September 4, 1933, from the company safe of the COJll- manding officer, Three Hundred and Ninetv-first Company, Civilian Conservation Corps, Reddington, Maine, ~"uch funds at that time being in the hands of his duly authorized agent officer. SEC. 4 . That the Comptroller General of the United States be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Major Frank E. Parker, Finance Department, the snm of $174.6i. said amount being public funds for which he is accountable and which were destroyed by fire while in the custody of his authorizf'd ~ent at Civilian Conserntion Corps Camp Numbered 2123, Vfarren, New Hampshire, on December :U, 1933. Approved, August 14, 1935.