Chapter 13. to amend the act entitled “An act to modify the postal money-order system, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three
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CHAP. 13.— An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to modify the postal money-order system, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.Jan. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal notes.Vol. 22, p. 526. That the first section of the act entitled “An act to modify the postal money-order system, and for other purposes,” be amended so as to read as follows:
" “That for the transmission of small sums under five dollars throughPostmaster-General may designate other than money-order offices to issue postal notes. the mails the Postmaster-General may authorize postmasters at money-order offices, or at such other offices as he may designate, to issue money-orders, without corresponding advices, on an engraved form to be prescribed and furnished by him; and a money-order issued on such new form shall be designated and known as a “postal note,” and a fee of three cents shall be charged forNotes payable at any money-order office. the issue thereof.
Every postmaster who shall issue a postal note under the authority of the Postmaster-General shall make the same payable to bearer, when duly receipted, at 355 any money-order office; and after a postal note has once been paid, to whomsoever it has been paid, the United States shall not be liable for any further claim for the amount thereof; but a postal note shall become invalid and not payable upon the expiration of three calendar months from the last day of the mouth during which the same was issued; and the holder, to obtain the amount of an invalid postal-note must forward it to the Superintendent of the Money-Order System, at Washington, District of Columbia, together with an application, in such manner and form as the Postmaster-General may prescribe, for a duplicate thereof, payable to such holder; and an additional fee of three cents shall be charged and exacted for the issue of the duplicate: *Provided*, That all*Proviso*.Provisions of law relative to postal notes extended to all offices of issue. provisions of law applicable to the issue of postal notes at money-order offices, and to postmasters, clerks and other employees therein, shall be equally applicable to offices authorized to issue postal notes under this act,” " Sec. 2.
That section fifty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised[R. S., sec. 5–163, p. 1059, amended](/us/rs/t/s5–163/p1059).Penalty for forging, etc., postal money-orders, extended to postal notes and to money-orders, etc., of foreign countries. Statutes be amended so as to read as follows, to wit: " “Sec. 5463. Any person who shall, with intent to defraud, falsely make, forge, counterfeit, engrave, or print, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, engraved, or printed, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, engraving, or printing, any order in imitation of, or purporting to be, a money-order or postal-note issued by or under the direction of the Post-Office Department of the United States, or of any foreign country, and payable in the United States, or any material signature or indorsement thereon; or any material signature upon any receipt or certificate of identification thereon; any person who shall falsely alter, or cause or procure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid or assist in falsely altering any such money-order or postal-note; any person who shall, with intent to defraud, pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered money-order or postal note, knowing the same, or any signature or indorsement thereon, to be false, forged, counterfeited or altered, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than two years and not more than five years.
” " Approved, January 3, 1887.