Chapter 50. directing the issue of a check to the Pequonnock National Bank in place of one heretofore issued to Juliaett Prescott, a pensioner of the United States, and lost
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CHAP. 50.— An Act directing the issue of a check to the Pequonnock National Bank in place of one heretofore issued to Juliaett Prescott, a pensioner of the United States, and lost.Mar. 23, 1882. Whereas, the Pequonuock National Bank of Bridgeport, which institutionPreamble. is located at the city of Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, on the fourth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, mailed a letter directed to the National Shoe and Leather Bank of New York City, inclosing, with other checks and coupons, a draft drawn by D.
W. Gooch, pension agent, dated October third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, on the assistant treasurer of the United States at the city of Boston, State of Massachusetts, numbered one hundred and thirty four thousand two hundred and ten, payable to the order of and indorsed by Juliaett Prescott for the sum of one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and forty six cents, which cheek was cashed by said Pequonnock National Bank of the city of Bridgeport in Connecticut and made payable to said National Shoe and Leather Bank of the city of New York; and Whereas, Said Draft with the other checks and coupons mailed with the same, were lost while being transmitted by mail from said city of Bridgeport to said city of New York; and Whereas, Duplicates have been issued for the other checks and coupons mailed with the above described draft, but no duplicate has been issued for such draft nor has the same been ever found or paid:
There-fore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Duplicate pension check.Juliette Prescott., That the pension agent at the city of Boston in the State of Massachusetts be, and he hereby is, instructed to issue a check for one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and forty-six cents in favor of said Pequonnock National Bank, in lieu of the one lost in the mail October fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, said lost check being numbered one hundred and thirty- four thousand two hundred and ten, dated October third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine for the same amount drawn by D.
W. Gooch pension agent at Boston, Massachusetts, payable to the order of Juliaett Prescott and by her endorsed to said bank: *Provided,* That said bank*Proviso.* 652 shall first execute a bond with sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury for two thousand dollars to hold the United States harmless against loss, cost, or damage on account of said original check. Approved, March 23, 1882.