Chapter 45.
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CHAP. 45.— An act to amend section thirty-eight hundred and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to deficiency in postmasters accounts. Feb. 4, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section thirty-eight hundred[R. S. 3835](/us/rs/s3835). and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes is amended by adding the following: " “Hereafter, when a deficiency shall be discovered in the accounts ofPostmasters’ accounts. any postmaster, who after the adjustment of his accounts fails, to make good such deficiency, it shall be the duty of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury Department to notify the Postmaster-General of such failure, and upon receiving such notice the Postmaster-General shall forthwithNotice to sureties of deficiencies. deposit a notice in the post-office at Washington, District of Columbia, addressed to the sureties respectively upon the bond of said postmaster, at the office where he or they may reside, if known; but a failure to give or mail such notice shall not discharge such surety or sureties upon such bond.
" Approved, February 4, 1879.