Chapter 68. directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check drawn by A
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CHAP. 68.— An Act directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check drawn by A. W. Beard, collector of customs at the port of Boston, Massachusetts, in favor of De Blois and Company.January 12, 1891. Whereas it appears that A. W. Beard, collector of customs at the Preamble.port of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, did, on the eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety, issue a check, numbered one hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at said Boston, in favor of De Blois and Company, for the sum of four thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty-nine cents, being for the refund of certain duties exacted in excess of the legal rate, which check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails; and Whereas the provisions of the act of February sixteenth, eighteenVol. 23, p. 306. hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred and [R.
S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/t/s3646/p717).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*De Blois and Company.Duplicate check to., That said A, W. Beard 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 section [R.
S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/t/s3646/p717).thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. Approved, January 12, 1891.