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PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 280, 281-MAY 2, 1942 [CHAPTER 280] [56 STAT. AN ACT May 2,1942 [H. R . 68657 [Private Law 392] Roy F. Lassly. Credit in accounts. G. F. Allen. Credit in accounts. [CHAPTER 281] AN A(T May 2,1942 [H. R . 6328] For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and [Private Law 393] for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department. Army of the United States. Credit in accounts of designated disburs- ing officers. Lt. Col. Charles K. McAlister. Credit in accounts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- troller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the following disbursing officers of the Army of the United States the amounts set opposite their names: Lieutenant Colonel Roy J. Caperton, Finance Depart- ment, $16.75; Lieutenant Colonel Walter D. Dabney, Finance Depart- ment, $69.24; Major E. H. deSaussure (Cavalry), Finance Depart- ment, $15.60; Major John R. Gilchrist, Finance Department, $254.90; Lieutenant Colonel Leo L. Gocker, Finance Department, $10; Lieu- tenant Colonel William S. Keller, Finance Department, $295.06; Colonel Montgomery T. Legg, Finance Department, $70; Lieutenant Colonel Clarence B. Lindner, Finance Department, $23; Lieutenant Colonel Emmet C. Morton, Finance Department (now retired), $132.18; Captain E. A. Muth, Finance-Reserve, $5; Lieutenant Col- onel Sidney C. Page, Finance Iepartment, $35; Lieutenant Colonel Frank E. Parker (deceased), Finance Department, $123.22; Major Fiorre J. Stagliano, Finance Department, $13.27; Lieutenant Colonel Wallace C. Steiger, Finance Department, $13; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas P. Walsh, Finance Department, $115.10; Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Whitt, Finance Department, $42.60; Lieutenant Colonel Stephen R. Beard, Finance Department, $3,168.22; and Lieutenant Colonel Eugene M. Foster, Finance Department, $268.23; the said amounts representing erroneous payments of public funds for which these officers are accountable, such erroneous payments having resulted from minor errors in the computations of pay and allowances due former members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, former members of the Army of the United States, civilian employees, and commercial firms or individuals from whom collection of the overpayments can- not be effected, and which amounts have been disallowed by 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 Lieutenant Colonel Charles K. McAlister, Finance Department, the sum of $1,222, public funds for which he is accountable, which were stolen from the safe of his agent officer, Wray F. Sagaser, at Civilian Conservation Corps Company 794, Ogden Bay Refuge BS-2, near 1160 For the relief of Roy F. Lassly, former acting chief disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, and G. F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disburse- ment, Treasury Department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- troller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Roy F. Lassly, former acting chief disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, the sum of $7,533.50, and in the accounts of G. F . Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department, the sum of $20,012.20, public funds for which they are accountable, and which were paid by them on fraudulent vouchers prepared by a trusted employee of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Approved, May 2, 1942.