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PRIVATE LAW 88-266-AUG. 1, 1964

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taken by rifle-armed "Shifta" bandits on the road from Asmara to Gondar in Ethiopia while he was serving as Branch Public Affairs Officer, United States Information Agency, Asmara, Ethiopia: Provided, That 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 August 1, 1964.

Private Law 88-265 AN ACT For the relief of John A. Peralta.

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 hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John A. Peralta, of Bay Shore, New York, the sum of $483.12, in full satisfaction of all his claims against the United States for compensation for loss through theft on or about September 21, 1961, of personally owned hand tools required for official business and stored in Government quarters at New York International Airport: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act shall be paid or delivered to or received by an agency 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 August 1, 1964.

August 1, 19 64 [»• R- 9615]

J o h n A. Peralta.

Private Law 88-266 AN ACT For the relief of Joe C. Oden.

Be it enacted by the Se?vate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Joe C. Oden, of Jacksonville, Alabama, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army at Fort McClellan, Alabama, is hereby relieved of liability to the United States in the amount of $1,089.34, the amount by which he was overpaid, as a result of administrative error, during the period from September 21, 1952, to April 4, 1962. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United Spates, credit shall be given for any amount for which liability is relieved by this Act. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Joe C. Oden, of Jacksonville, Alabama, 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: Provided, That 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

August 1, 1964 [H. R. IOO66]

Joe C. Oden.

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