Chapter 117.
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CHAP. 117.— An act to ratify the issuance of duplicate checks in certain cases by the superintendent of the mint of the United States at San Francisco Mar. 3, 1883. Issuance of duplicate checks in certain cases by Superintendent U. S. Mint, San Francisco, ratified.Preamble.Whereas, Henry L. Dodge, as superintendent of the United States mint at San Francisco, California, did, on January thirteenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-one, draw three certain checks upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, all dated on that day, and all payable to Robert B.
Hill, or order, to-wit: One numbered twenty-four hundred and eighty, for twenty thousand dollars; one numbered twenty-four hundred and eighty-one, for nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; and one numbered twenty-four hundred and eighty-two, for two thousand live hundred dollars, and all delivered to said Hill in purchase of silver bullion for the United States; and Whereas it was thereafter made to satisfactorily appear to said Dodge that the said three cheeks had been, in due course of business, sold, assigned, and delivered to Wells, Fargo and Company, a banking and express corporation doing business within the United States, and having an office at said city of San Francisco, and that after such sale and delivery, and while in the custody of said corporation, the said three checks had been destroyed by fire; and Whereas thereafter, to-wit, on the twenty-fifth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-one, upon the application of said corporation, the said Dodge, as superintendent as aforesaid, did issue and deliver to said corporation duplicate or second originals of all three of said checks:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Ratification. That all acts of the said Dodge, as such superintendent as aforesaid, in issuing said duplicate checks, *Proviso*.are hereby ratified and confirmed: *Provided,* That the said corporation shall, within three months from the passage of this act, execute and deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, a bond, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco, conditioned to indemnify the United States against any loss or damage that may arise by the issuance by said three duplicate checks.
Approved, March 3, 1883.