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[77 STAT. 876]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1963
[77 STAT. 876]

B76 47 Stat. 406.

PRIVATE LAW 88-f7-JUNE 21, 1963

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I^etween February 9, 1959, and July 5, 1962, in contravention of the Act of July 30, 1932 (5 U.S.C. 59a). I n 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 Act. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lieutenant Claude V. Wells 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. SEC. 3. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act 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 21, 1963.

Private Law 88-7 AN ACT For the relief of Melborn Keat.

June 21, 1963 [H. R. 1561]

Melborn K e a t.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000 to Melborn Keat, of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, in full settlement of his claims against the United States for the refund of the amount of a bail bond which another individual was recjuired to post in connection with a hearing in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in April of 1960, which was furnished by the said Melborn Keat in the form of a certified check for $1,000 drawn to the order of a United States commissioner and delivered to him in his official capacity which amount was not returned because the check or the proceeds therefrom were never deposited with the United States district court: Provided, 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 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 21, 1963. Private Law 88-8

June 21, 1963 [H. R. 3626]

Ronnie E. Hunter.

AN ACT

For the relief of Ronnie E. Hunter. Be it emicted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comptix>]ler General of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to settle the claim of Ronnie E. Hunter, 6612 Lake Steilacoom