Chapter 405. To relieve enlisted men affected thereby from certain hardship incident to the operation of the proviso of section 4b of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, and to protect disbursing officers in connection therewith
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CHAP. 405.— An Act To relieve enlisted men affected thereby from certain hardship incident to the operation of the proviso of section 4b of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, and to protect disbursing officers in connection therewith. September 22, 1922.[[H. R. 8475](/us/bill/67/hr/8475).][[Public, No. 340](/us/67/pl/340).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Army.Payments to enlisted men under Army reorganization Act, validated.Vol. 41, p. 762.
That all payments heretofore made in good faith to enlisted men while in active service by reason of anything contained in that portion of the proviso of section 4b of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,’ approved June 3, 1916, and to establish military justice,” approved June 4, 1920, reading;
“That nothing in this section shall operate to reduce the pay which any enlisted man is now receiving during his current enlistment and while he holds his present grade, be, and the same hereby are, validated for all purposes, irrespective of whether such payments conform to decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury or the Disbursing officers to be credited for amounts paid.General Accounting Office; and such payments shall be passed by the proper accounting officers of the United States to the credit of Refund of deductions.the disbursing officers making the same.
Any sums of money which may have been deducted from the pay of any enlisted man on account of any such payment validated by this Act shall be refunded. Approved, September 22, 1922.