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PRIVATE LAW 91-245-JAN.8, 1971

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SEC. 2. Notwithstanding section 5 of the Act of October 15, 19f> (80 Stat. 952; 5 U.S.C. 7342(d)), or other provision of law to the contrary, the Honorable John W. McCormack may wear and display the decoration mentioned in section 1 after the acceptance thereof. Approved January 5, 1971.

Private Law 91-245 January 8, 1971 [H. R. 13810]

Lt. Col, Robert L. P o e h l e i n, USAF.

AN ACT For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Poehlein.

Be 'd endcted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemhJed^ That Robert- L». Poehlein (Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force, serial number F R 41288) of Alexandria, Virginia, is relieved of liability to the United States in the amount of $4,852.70, representing per diem payments made by the said Robert L. Poehlein during October and November 1962, pursuant to his duties as the Accounting and Finance Officer at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, to military personnel involved in the relocation of aircraft from Ellsworth Air Force Base while runway repairs were being made at the base. The said Robert L. Poehlein made such payments, to which the Comptroller General of the United States has taken exception, only after being advised at intermediate, command, and departmental levels that such payments were properly payable. The relief herein authorized shall not bar recovery from the payees of the amounts improperly received by them. SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said Robert L. Poehlein an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts paid by him, or withheld from sums otherwise due him, with respect to the indebtedness to the United States specified in the first section of this Act. (b) Xo part of the amount appropriated in subsection (a) of this section 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 subsection shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved January 8, 1971.

Private Law 91-246 January 11, 1971 [H. R. 19113]

Indiana University.

AN ACT To provide for the free entry of a 61-note cast bell carillon and a 42-note subsidiary cast bell carillon for the use of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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 admit free of duty a 61-note cast bell carillon and a 42-note subsidiary cast bell carillon for the use of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. SEC. 2. If the liquidation of the entry of the article described in the first section of this Act has become final, such entry shall be reliquidated and the appropriate refund of duty shall be made. Approved January 11, 1971.

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