Chapter 422. directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check, drawn by O
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CHAP. 422.— An Act directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check, drawn by O. M. Carter, lieutenant United States Engineer Corps, in favor of Charles C. Ely.June 13, 1890. Preamble.Whereas, It appears that O. M. Carter, lieutenant Engineer Corps, United States Army, did, on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, issue a check numbered one hundred and thirty-nine thousand one hundred and sixty-four, upon the assistant Treasurer of the United States, at New York, in favor of Charles C.
Ely. for the sum of three thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents, in payment of contract work done at Brunswick, Georgia, which cheek is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails by Benjamin D. Greene, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to whom it had been assigned; and; Vol. 33, p. 306.Whereas, The provisions of the act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred [R. S., sec. 3646](/us/rs/t/s3646).and forty-six.
Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing; United States disbursing officers and agents to issue duplicates of lost checks apply only to checks drawn for two thousand five hundred dollars or less; therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*O.M. Carter directed to issue duplicate check., That said Lieutenant O. M. Carter be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check under such regulations in regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the issue of duplicate checks under the provisions of [R.
S., sec. 8646, p. 717](/us/rs/t/s8646/p717).section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. Approved, June 13, 1890.