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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

PRIVATE LAW 98-12—MAY 15, 1984

98 STAT. 3419

owned by John C. Sciacca, to be documented as a vessel of the United States with the privilege of engaging in the coastwise trade, on compliance with all other requirements of law. SEC. 2. Notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, Zorba. 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883), the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall cause the vessel Zorba, official number 229763, owned by Howard Costa, to be documented as a vessel of the United States with the privilege of engaging in the coastwise trade, on compliance with all other requirements of law. Approved May 8, 1984.

Private Law 98-12 98th Congress An Act For the relief of sixteen employees of the Charleston Naval Shipyard.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following named employees of the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina, are hereby relieved of all liability to repay to the United States the below listed sums representing overpa5nnents of per diem made through administrative error and received in good faith by the employees: (1) Henry Brown, the sum of $476; (2) Byron R. Buchanan, the sum of $1,077; (3) Arthur Canady, the sum of $450; (4) Robert E. Carter, the sum of $442; (5) Edwin L. Clickner, the sum of $476; (6) William F. Cummings, the sum of $1,077; (7) Edward F. Fuller, the sum of $1,077; (8) Wilbur Geathers, the sum of $482.85; (9) Donell E. Gourdine, the sum of $1,250.05; (10) David D. Lorick, the sum of $1,077; (11) Martin N. Olmeda, the sum of $1,077; (12) Lawrence E. Riley, the sum of $617; (13) Dean W. Sabo, the sum of $1,077; (14) Leon T. Scarborough, the sum of $902.75; (15) George B. Stone, the sum of $442; and (16) Paul K. Vincent, the sum of $434. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized jand directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not othervidse appropriated, to an employee listed above any amount equal to the aggregate of the amount paid by such employee or withheld from any sum due him, in complete or partial satisfaction of the liability to the United States as specified in the first section of this Act. SEC. 3. No part of the amounts 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 clsiim, and the sarnie shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of the Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved May 15, 1984.

May 15, 1984 [S. 1212]