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



May 26, 1936. 

 [H. R. 8784.] 



[Public, No. 618.1 



Executive branch of 

 ttie Government. 



Witliholding of com- 

 pensation where pay- 

 ments have been made 

 illegally, authorized. 



Pr or/50. 



Existing laws not 

 affected. 



[CHAPTER 452.] 



AN ACT 



To authorize withholding compensation due Government personnel. 



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

 United States of Ariwrha in Congress assemhled, That hei-eafter, 

 whenever upon the statement of the account of any disbursing officer 

 of the United States in the General Accounting Office credit shall 

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

 branch of the Government, otherwise entitled to comiiensation from 

 the United States or from any agencj^ or instrumentality thereof, 

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

 bursement has been accomplished under such i-egulations as maj' be 

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

 establishment (including coi'porations) under which such payee is 

 entitled to receive compensation : Provided, That nothing contained 

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

 ing laws relating to the collection of the indebtedness of accountable 

 or disbursing officers. 



Approved, May 26, 1936. 



[CHAPTER 453.] 



May 26, 1936. 



|H. R. 10267.1 



[Public, No. 619.1 



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 Mau Serv- United States of Ajnerica in Congress asse?nbled, That the Post- 

 master General is authorized and directed to adjust the compensa- 

 tion of division superintendents, assistant division sui^erintendents, 

 assistant superintendents at large, assistant superintendent in charge 

 of car construction, chief clerics, 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- 

 ticms in the departmental service in the District of Columbia. Any 

 appropriation now or hereafter available for tlie payment of the 

 compensation of employees in the Railway Mail 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. 



Adjustment of com 

 pensation. 

 Vol. 43. p. 1061. 

 U. S. C, p. 1761. 



U. S. C. p. 85. 

 Appropriations made 

 available. 



May 26, 1936. 

 [H. R- 10934.1 



[Public, No. 620.] 



[CHAPTER 454.] 



AN ACT 



_ To authorize the transfer of the customhouse at Salem, Massachusetts, 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 

 saiemMass. United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secre- 



Transfer of custom- (*jim i ii-i i i'-t tt.t 



house to Department tary 01 the i rcasuiy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed 

 of Interior, authorized. ^^ transfer to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 

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

 joining proi^erty, both real and personal, as may now be under the 

 jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury. 



