Chapter 217. for the relief of Josephus Hawley
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CHAP. 217.— An Act for the relief of Josephus Hawley.June 13, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Josephus Hawley.Duplicate check. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be issued to Josephus Hawley, of Dunlap, in the State of Iowa, a duplicate cheek for the sum of one thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-seven cents, in lieu of a check for said amount numbered one hundred and eighty-seven thousand six hundred and sixty-eight, dated March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, drawn by Jacob Rich, United States pension agent at Des Moines, Iowa, upon the assistant treasurer at New York, and heretofore lost in transmission through the *Proviso.*mails: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied by proof of the loss of said original check, and the said Josephus Hawley 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 13, 1882.