Chapter 41. authorizing the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of Postmasters for loss by Burglary, Fire, or other unavoidable casualty
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CHAP. 41.— An Act authorizing the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of Postmasters for loss by Burglary, Fire, or other unavoidable casualty.Mar. 17, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postmasters’ claims for losses by tire, etc.; That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to investigate all claims of Postmasters for the loss of money-order funds, postage-stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and postal cards belonging to the United States in the hands of such Postmasters, resulting from burglary, tire, or other unavoidable casualty, and if he shall determine that such lossPayment to postmasters. or, credit in account. resulted from no fault or negligence on the part of such Postmasters, to pay to such Postmasters or credit them with the amount so ascertained to have been lost or destroyed, and also to credit Postmasters with the amount of any remittance of money-order funds made by them, in compliance with the instructions of the Postmaster-General, which shall have been lost or stolen while in transit by mail from the office of the remitting Postmaster to the office designated as his depository: *Provided*,*Provisos*.
That no claim exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars shall be paid or credited until after the facts shall have been ascertained by the Postmaster General and reported to Congress, together with his recommendation thereon, and an appropriation made therefor: *And provided further*, That this act shall not embrace any claim for losses as aforesaid which accrued more than fifteen years prior to its passage; 30 and all such claims must be presented to the Postmaster-General within six months after the taking effect of this act; and no claim for losses which may hereafter accrue shall be allowed unless presented within three months from the time the loss accrued.
Sec. 2.—Postmaster-General to make annual report to Congress. That it is hereby made the duty of the Postmaster-General to report his action herein to Congress annually, with his reasons therefor in each particular case Approved, March 17, 1882.