58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS. -CHS. 289, 309-JUNE 27, 28, 1944 or disallowed in the said accounts more than three years after such payments were made: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall certify that in his opinion there is no evidence of fraud on the part of the individuals making such payments. SEC. 3 . No charge shall be made against the certifying officer responsible for the certification of vouchers pursuant to the provisions of Executive Order Numbered 6166, dated June 10, 1933, and any charge heretofore made against any such officer, shall be removed, for the amount of any payment for which credit shall be allowed under sections 1 and 2 of this Act, where the head of the department or establishment concerned, or his duly authorized representative shall certify to the Comptroller General of the United States that the pay- ment appears to have been made without fraud on the part of the certifying officer. SEC. 4. The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of H. T. Tate and W. O. Woods, former Treasurers of the United States, and W. A . Julian, Treasurer of the United States, for sums not to exceed $735, $4,154.63, and $16,638.26, respectively, representing unavailable items in their accounts as former Treasurers and Treasurer of the United States, as enumerated in House Report Numbered 909, Seventy-eighth Con- gress, first session: Provided, That any recoveries heretofore or here- after made in respect of any of the foregoing items, may, in the discretion of the Comptroller General of the United States, be applied to offset unavailable items of a similar character hereafter arising in the accounts of the former Treasurers and Treasurer, respectively, upon a showing that such unavailable items have occurred without fraud on the part of the former Treasurers or Treasurer. SEC. 5. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treas- ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $575.75, which amount shall be credited to the Treasurer's account in order to adjust unavail- able items resulting from overpayments and a check paid on forged endorsement which check was lost in the Office of the Treasurer of the United States. Approved June 27, 1944. 997 5U.S.C. § 132note. H. T. Tate, W. 0. Woods, and W. A . Julian. Credit in accounts. Appropriation. [CHAPTER 309] AN ACT For the relief of Reverend C. M. McKay. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Rev.c.M .McKay. of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Reverend C. M. McKav, Leesburg, Florida, the sum of $781.10. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Reverend C. M . McKay against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained by him on August 16,1941, in Jacksonville, Florida, when the automobile in which he was riding was in collision with a United States Navy bus: Provided,That no part of the amount appro- priated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof 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 Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved June 28, 1944. 93650--45- -PT. II - --5 June 28, 1944 Ui. It. 541 (Private Law 3141
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