Chapter 676. To authorize the collection, in monthly installments, of indebtedness due the United States from enlisted men, and for other purposes
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Chap. 676: To authorize the collection, in monthly installments, of indebtedness due the United States from enlisted men, and for other purposes. Chapter 676 45 Stat. 698 1928-05-22 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 1 public Chapter 676.— An Act To authorize the collection, in monthly installments, of indebtedness due the United States from enlisted men, and for other purposes.
May 22, 1928.[[S. 1829](/us/bill/70/s/1829).][[Public, No. 464](/us/pl/70/464).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That under such Army.Indebtedness of enlisted men may be deducted in monthly installments from pay rolls.regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, when it has been administratively ascertained that an enlisted man of the Army is indebted to the United States or any of its instrumentalities, the amount of such indebtedness may be collected in monthly installments *Provisos.*Aggregate deduction from month’s pay, limited.by deduction from his pay on current pay rolls: *Provided,* That the aggregate sum of such deductions for any month shall not exceed two-thirds of the soldier’s rate of pay for that month: *And Limitation, if pay forfeited by court martial sentence, etc.provided further,* That whenever any part of the pay of a soldier for a certain month shall have been legally forfeited by sentence of court-martial, or otherwise legally authorized to be withheld, then no deduction under this Act shall be so applied as to reduce the actual pay received by the soldier for that month below one-third 699of his authorized rate of pay therefor: *And provided further,* That Remission, on honorable discharge, of unpaid indebtedness, authorized.the Secretary of War, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, may cause to be remitted and canceled, upon honorable discharge of the enlisted man from the service, any such indebtedness incurred during the current enlistment and remaining unpaid at the time of discharge: *And provided further,* That nothing in this Act shall be Collections on final statements from pay, etc.from construed to prevent collections of such indebtedness on final statements from pay, in the proportions hereinbefore indicated, or from clothing allowance savings.
Approved, May 22, 1928.
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