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74th congress. SESS. II. CHS. 452-454. MAY 26, 1936. 



May 26, 1936. 

 [H. R. 8784-1 



[Public, No. 618.] 



Executive branch of 

 the Government. 



Withholding of com- 

 pensation where pay- 

 ments have been made 

 illegally, authorized. 



Proviso. 



Existing laws not 

 affected. 



[CHAPTER 452.] 



AN ACT 



To authorize withholding compensation due Government personnel. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Represeivtatives of the 

 United States of Arnerica in Congress assembled, That hereafter, 

 whenever upon the statement of the account of any disbursing officer 

 of the United States in tlie General Accounting Office credit shall 

 have been disallowed for any payment to any person in the executive 

 branch of the Government, otherwise entitled to compensation from 

 the United States or from any agency or instrumentality thereof, 

 such compensation of the payee may be withlield until full reim- 

 bursement has been accomplished under such regulations as may be 

 prescribed by the head of the department, branch, or indejoendent 

 establishment (including corporations) under which sucli payee is 

 entitled to receive comiDensation : Provided, That nothing contained 

 in this Act shall be construed to repeal or in any way modify exist- 

 ing laws relating to tlie collection of the indebtedness of accountable 

 or disbursing officers. 



Approved, May 26, 1936. 



[CHAPTER 453.] 



May 26, 1936. 



[H. R. 10267.] 



[PubUc, No. 619.] 



AN ACT 



To provide for adjusting the compensation of division superintendents, assistant 

 division superintendents, assistant superintendents at large, assistant super- 

 intendent in charge of car construction, chief clerks, assistant chief clerks, 

 and clerks in charge of sections in offices of division superintendents in the 

 Railway Mail Service, to correspond to the rates established by the Classifi- 

 cation Act of 1923, as amended. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 Railway Mail Serv- Uriited States of America in Congress assembled. That the Post- 

 Adjustment of com- master General is authorized and directed to adjust the compensa- 

 tion of division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, 

 a.ssistant superintendents at large, assistant superintendent in cliarge 

 of car construction, chief clerks, assistant chief clerks, and clerks 

 in charge of sections in offices of division superintendents. Railway 

 Mail Service, to correspond, so far as may be practicable, to the rates 

 established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, for posi- 

 tions in tlie departmental service in the District of Columbia. Any 

 appropriation now or hereafter available for the payment of the 

 compensation of employees in the Railway INIail Service shall be 

 available for payment of compensation in accordance with the rates 

 adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 

 Approved, May 26, 1936. 



pensation 

 Vol. 43. p. 1061. 

 U. S. C, p. 1751 



U. S. C, p. 85. 

 Appropriations made 

 available. 



May 26. 1936. 

 |H. R. 10934 ] 



[Public, No. 620.1 



[CHAPTER 454.] 



AN ACT 



To authorize the transfer of the customhouse at Salem, JVIassachusetts, from the 

 jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to the Department of the Interior. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 TraSter^^f^custom- United States of Amerka in Congress assembled, That the Secre- 

 house to Department tary of tile Trea.suiy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed 

 n erior, au onze . ^^ transfer to tile coutrol and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 

 Interior the customhouse at Salem, Massachusetts, and such ad- 

 joining property, botli real and personal, as may now be under the 

 jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Trea.suiy. 



