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PUBLIC LAW 85-907-SEPT. 2, 1958

ized to cooperate with the Commission and, to the extent permitted by law, to furnish such information to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman or other member designated to act as Chairman. ADMINISTRATION

SEC. 7. (a) For administrative purposes only, the Commission and the Advisory Committee shall be attached to the Department of Justice. (b) The Commission shall render to the President annual reports for transmission to the Congress. The Commission shall submit its final report and the Commission and the Advisory Committee shall terminate and wind up their affairs prior to December 31, 1959.

Reports to Congress.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 8. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts, not to exceed a total of $75,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved September 2, 1958.

Public Law 85-907 AN ACT For the relief of certain employees of the Department of the Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any employee of the Department of the Navy who, as a result of administrative error, received any overpayment of per diem while assigned to duty at the Golcuk Navy Yard, Ismet, Turkey, during the period beginning November 23, 1955, and ending April 30, 1957, both dates inclusive, is relieved of liability to pay to the United States the amount of such overpayment. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United States, full credit shall be given for the amounts for which liability is relieved by this section. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each employee of the Department of the Navy referred to in the first section of this Act the amount certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Secretary of the Navy as the total of the amounts withheld from such employee by the United States on account of the overpayments referred to in the first section of this Act, plus the amounts paid to the United States by such employee on account of such overpayments: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act for the payment of any one claim 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 such 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 September 2, 1958.

September 2, 1958 [H.R. 12212]

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