An Act for the relief of certain persons involved in the negotiation of forged or fraudulent Government checks issued at Parks Air Force Base, Calif
PL 88-222 (H.R.4839), enacted 12/21/1963

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PUBLIC L
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Public Law 88-222 
A N A C T 
December 21, 1963 
For the relief of certiiiu i>ersous involved in Mie iiejroriatiou of forf:e<l or 
[H. R. 4839] 
fnimlnleiit (iovenuuent chei-ks issued at Parks Air Force Base. C'alifcM'iiia. 
Be it erutcted hy the .Senate and House of ReprexentatireK of the 
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States of Ameriea in CongresH assembled. That any i)ei'soii 
Parks Air Force 
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Relief of certain 
(1) to be liable to the I nited htates by reason ot the ne^o- persons. 
tiation, or presentment for payment, of any forged or fraudulent 
check which, during the period beginning 'July 1, 1955, and 
ending March 81, 1958, botli dates inclusive, was drawn on the 
Treasui-y of the T'nited States and issued or procured as a result 
of fraud at Parks Air Force Base, California ; and 
(2) to have negotiated such check or presented it for payment, 
without actual knowledge of any fact which would constitute 
notice of an infiniiity in such check or defect in the title of the 
person negotiating it; 
is hereby relieved of liability to the United States arising out of his 
negotiation of such check, or his presentment of such check for pay-
ment. 
SEC. 2. (a) In the case of any person who has paid to the L^nited 
States, on aceomit of any check referred to in the tii-st section of this 
Act, any amount for which the liability of such pei-son would have 
been relieved by such first section if this Act had been in effect when 
such amount was paid to tlie United States, the Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to such i3erson, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal 
io all such amounts so paid to the L'nited States by such j)erson. 
reduced by any amounts recoxered by such ])erson from any prior 
endorser of such check. 
(b) 111 the case of any person who has paid to a subsequent endoi-ser 
of a check referred to in the first section of this Act any amount for 
which the liability of such person to the Ignited States would haA^e 
been relieved by such first section if such liability had required pay-
ment to the United States and this Act had been in effect when such 
amount was paid, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and 
directed to pay to such pei'son, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to all such amounts so ])aid 
to any subsequent endorser, reduced by any amounts recovered by 
such person from any prior endorser of such check. 
SEC. 3. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying 
or disbursing officer of the Ignited States, full credit shall he, given 
for all amounts for which liability is relieved by the first section of 
this Act, but nothing in this section shall precliule the recovery from 
any such certifying or disbursing officer of the amount of any loss 
incurred by the L'nited States because of fraud or criminality on the 
part of such officer. 
SEC. 4. Xothing in this Act shall be construed to relieve any person 
of liability to refund to the Ignited States any amount receixed by him 
by reason of fraud or bad faith on the part of such person in connection 
Avith the negotiation of the checks referred to in paragraph (1) of the 
first section of this Act. 
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[77 STAT. 
SEC. 5. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act for the pay-
ment of any one claim in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid 
or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of 
services rendered in connection with such claim, and the same shall be 
unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwitlistanding. Any person 
violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not 
exceeding $ 1 ^ . 
Approved December 21, 1963. 
Public Law 88-223 
December 21, 1963 
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[H. R. 6001] 
rpo authorize the conveyance to the Waukegan Port District, Illinois, of certain 
real property of the United States. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Waukegan Port 
United States of America, in Congress assemhled. That the Secretary 
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^^ ^^® Army is authorized and directed to convej^ to the Waukegan 
ance. 
Port District, Illinois, witliout monetary consideration, all of the right, 
title, and interest of the I'nited States in and to the real property 
described in section 2 of this Act, subject to the condition that such port 
district will maintain the existing steel sheet pile bulkhead in good con-
dition for the protection of passing navigation and prevention of the 
escape of material into the harbor and that such property will be used 
for public harb<ir purposes. If such real property shall ever cease to 
be used for such purposes, all the right, title, and interest to such prop-
erty shall revert to the United States, which shall have the immediate 
right to entry thereon. 
SEC. 2. The real property referred to in the first section of this Act 
is more particularly described as follows: 
That part of fractional section 22, township -Ip north, range 12 east 
of the third principal meridian, described as follows: Beginning at 
a point 181.6 feet north of the one-half section line of said section 22, 
and 1,131.5 feet, more or less, east of the west line of said section 22, 
which point is on the westerly line of the pier or dock forming the east 
side of Waukegan Harbor, thence due east 100 feet, thence due south 
375 feet, more or less, to the southwest face of pier or dock, thence 
north approximately 42 degrees west 146 feet, more or less, along the 
face of said dock to its junction with north and south dock, thence 
north 262 feet, more or less, along face of said dock, to the point of 
beginning, situated in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, except-
ing therefrom that part thereof, now submerged, lying west of the 
existing steel sheet pile bulkhead now foi-ming the east side of 
Waukegan Harbor, which part was heretofore cut away by the United 
States for the purpose of widening and improving Waukegan Harbor 
for the benefit of navigation passing to and from docks in slip num-
bered 1 and along the inner basin to the north. 
Approved December 21, 1963.