Chapter 196. authorizing a duplicate check in payment of pension to William A
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CHAP. 196.— An Act authorizing a duplicate check in payment of pension to William A. Gardner, of Frederick County, Maryland, in lieu of one lost.June 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,William A. Gardner. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be issued to William 705 A. Gardner, of Frederick County, Maryland, a duplicate check for Duplicate check.the sum of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents, in lieu of a check for said amount numbered one hundred and ninety thousand three hundred and fifty-one, dated July ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty, drawn by John S.
Witcher United States pension agent, upon the assistant treasurer at New York, and heretofore lost in transmission through the mails: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied, by proof, of the loss of said original check, and the said William A. Gardner shall execute and deliver a bond, with security to be approved by the said Secretary, for double the amount of said check, to indemnify the United States. Approved, June 7, 1882.