Chapter 41.
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CHAP. 41.— An act to amend section three hundred and four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing the temporary appointment of an Acting Assistant Treasurer.Mar. 31, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,R. S., sec. 304, p. 51, amended. That section three hundred and four of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 304.
The Treasurer may, in his discretion, and with the consentAssistant Treasurer. of the Secretary of the Treasury, authorize the Assistant Treasurer to act in the place and discharge any or all the duties of the Treasurer of the United States; and in the event of the absence or illness of either the Treasurer or the Assistant Treasurer, or both, the Secretary of theActing Assistant Treasurer to perform duties of Treasurer. Treasury may, on the recommendation of the Treasurer appoint for a term not exceeding thirty days at one time, from among the clerks in the Treasury, any one of said clerks to be Acting Assistant Treasurer during such absence or illness: *Provided, however*, That no such appointment*Proviso*, shall be made until the official bond given by the principal of the office shall be made in terms to cover and apply to the acts and defaults of every such person so appointed from time to time.
Such acting officer shall, moreover, for the time being, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct in like cases of the Assistant Treasurer, for whom he acts.” " Approved, March 31, 1886.