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PUBLIC LAW 86-87-JULY 13, 1959
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in section 303, he shall be paid the total amount deducted from his salary, with interest thereon at the rate of 4 per centum per annum to December 31, 1947, and 3 per centum per annum thereafter, compounded on December 31 of each year to date of separation. B en f " (j) I n any case in which (1) any Comptroller General (A) dies in order eoriciaries, preceoffice before completion of five years of civilian service as prescribed in dence. subsections (n) and (o) of this section, or (B) after completing five years of such service dies in office without any survivors entitled to an annuity as provided in subsection (e) of this section, or (2) in any case in which any retired Comptroller General dies without any survivors entitled to an annuity as provided in subsection (e) of this section, the total amount deducted from his salary and retirement pay with interest thereon at the rate of 4 per centum per annum to December 31, 1947, and 3 per centum per annum thereafter, compounded on December 31st of each year to date of death, shall be paid to the person or persons surviving at the date title to payment arises, in the following order of precedence, and such payment shall be a bar to recovery by any Other person: "First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by a writing of a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General received by the General Accounting Office prior to his death; "Second, if there be no such beneficiary, to the widow of such Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General; "Third, if none of the above, to the child or children of such Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General and the descendants of any deceased children by representation; "Fourth, if none of the above, to the parents of such Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General; "Fifth, if none of the above, to the duly appointed executor or administrator of the estate of a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General; "Sixth, if none of the above, to such other next of kin of such Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General as may be determined by the General Counsel of the General Accounting Office to be entitled under the laws of the domicile of such Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General at time of his death. "Determinations as to the widow or child of a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General for the purposes of this subsection shall be made by the General Counsel of the General Accounting Office without regard to the definition of these terms in subsection (g) of this section. " (k) I n any case in which the annuities of all persons entitled to survivor annuities terminate before the aggregate amount of annuity or annuities paid equals the total amount deducted from the salary and retirement pay of a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General, with interest thereon at 4 per centum per annum to December 31, 1947, and 3 per centum thereafter, compounded on December 31st of each year, to the date of his death, the difference shall be paid in the order or precedence prescribed in subsection (j) of this section. "(1) Any accrued annuity remaining unpaid upon the termination di^oosuion""*^*^' disposition. (other than by death) of the annuity of any survivor of a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General shall be paid to such survivor. Any accrued annuity remaining unpaid upon the death of any such survivor shall be paid in the following order of precedence: "First, to the duly appointed executor or administrator of the estate of such person;
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