Chapter 242. To authorize credit in the disbursing accounts of certain officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department
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Chap. 242: To authorize credit in the disbursing accounts of certain officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department. Chapter 242 45 Stat. 2259 1929-02-16 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 private Chapter 242.— An Act To authorize credit in the disbursing accounts of certain officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department.
February 16, 1929.[[H. R. 4258](/us/bill/70/hr/4258).][[Private, No. 371](/us/pvtl/70/371).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Comptroller Army.Credits allowed in accounts of designated officers.General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of the following-named officers of the Army of the United States in the sums herein stated, which now stand as disallowances on the books of the General Accounting Office:
Captain W. A. MacNicholl, Finance Department, $706.95, being Captain W. A. MacNicholl.the amount of payments made in his accounts for the month of June, 1925, incident to the medical care and treatment of two officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps who were injured in an aerial flight. First Lieutenant J. P. Tillman, Quartermaster Corps, $99.85; Lieutenant J. P. Tillman, etc.Major H. E. Pace, Finance Department, $99.85; Lieutenant Colonel S. B. McIntyre, Finance Department, $99.85; and Captain R.
G. Jenks, Finance Department, $99.85, on account of payments of reenlistment allowance made by them to one Tom F. Nicholson on fraudulent vouchers: *Provided*, That the officers certifying as to the *Proviso.*Responsibility waived.correctness of the service of the soldier and the vouchers on which these payments were made shall be relieved of all responsibility in connection therewith. Major John S. Jadwin, United States Army, retired, $350.62, Major John S. Jadwin.representing the balance found due the United States from funds turned over by him to his agent officer for the pay and ration funds of a military mapping detachment, and which were embezzled by their immediate commanding officer to whom intrusted for disbursement: *Provided*, That Lieutenant John C.
Wade, Corps of Engineers, *Proviso.*Lieutenant John C. Wade relieved of responsibility.agent officer, shall be relieved of all responsibility and accountability in connection therewith. Captain Carl Halla, Finance Department, $174.85, representing Captain Carl Halla.the amount paid to S. J. Swiekatowski, former Army field clerk, for personal property destroyed by Government officials while in storage, and which sum was found due and recommended by board of officers. Captain L.
H. Price, Finance Department, $199.92, being theCaptain L. H. Price. amount paid by him to one Beecher Roberts, private, Company K, Twenty-fourth Infantry, in his accounts for May, 1926, soldier having been found not guilty of desertion and honorably discharged. 2260 Captain L. V. Houston.Captain L. V. Houston, Finance Department, $12.90, representing overpayments to citizens military training camp students on account of travel pay to and from camp. Major E. T. Comegys.Major E.
T. Comegys, Finance Department, $92.25, being the amount paid by him to W. R. Graham for stenographic report on hearings before the Select Committee of Inquiry into the operations of the United States Army Air Service. Sec. 2. Settlement of claims designated. The Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to adjust and settle the following claims and certify same to Congress. Mrs. Letitia Spence.Mrs. Letitia Spence, the sum of $966.20, being the amount found due by a board of officers on account of damages sustained to her property as the result of a fire spreading from Camp Lewis, Washington, Military Reservation, on July 23, 1926.
Edward F. Becken.Edward F. Becken, the sum of $1,450, being the amount found due by a surveying officer for damages sustained to his property as the result of military operations at Camp Upton, New York, during the years 1918 and 1919. Ray Wiedersum.Roy Wiedersum, first lieutenant, Air Corps Reserve, United States Army, the sum of $3,386.74, under section 6 of the Act approved Vol. 43, p. 365.June 3, 1924 (Public, 1826, Sixty-eighth Congress), representing pay and allowances amounting to $645.24, from April 5 to June 27, 1925, and $2,741.50 as reimbursement for approved amounts expended by him for medical and hospital treatment during the same period for injuries sustained in an airplane accident while in training.
Approved, February 16, 1929.
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