Chapter 231. To amend an act entitled ‘An act authorizing the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two
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CHAP. 231.— An Act To amend an act entitled ‘An act authorizing the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.May 9, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postmasters.Claims for lossesVol. 22, p. 29, amended. That the act entitled “An act authorizing the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty,” approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be and the same is hereby, amended so as to read, as follows:
That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized toPost master-General to investigate claims for losses by casualty. investigate all claims of postmasters for the loss of money-order funds, postal-funds, postage-stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and postal cards, belonging to the United States in the hands of such postmasters, resulting from burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty, and if he shall determine that such loss 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 or postal 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, or after arrival at such depository office and before the postmaster at such depository office has become responsible therefor: *Provided*, That no claim exceeding the sum*Provisos*.Claims exceeding $2,000 to be reported to Congress. 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 March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and all such claims must be presented to the Postmaster-GeneralLimitation as to time of presenting claim. within six months from such latter date, except claims for postal funds which may be received, considered and allowed, if presented within six months after the passage of this act, in cases where the postmaster had. at or about the time of the loss, made report thereof to the Post-Office Department or to an inspector or special agent of the Department: and no claim for losses which may hereafter accrue shall be allowed unless presented within six months from the time the loss occurred.
Sec. 2. That it is hereby made the duty of the Postmaster-GeneralReport. to report his action herein to Congress annually, with his reasons therefor in each particular case. Approved, May 9, 1888.