Chapter 17. To amend section four hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes so us to require original receipts for deposits of postmasters to be sent to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department
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CHAP. 17.— An Act To amend section four hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes so us to require original receipts for deposits of postmasters to be sent to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department.January 22, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal service.[R. S. sec. 407, p. 67, amended](/us/rs/t/407/p67). That section four hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be. and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 407. The postal revenues and all debts due the Post-Office Deposit of revenues.Department shall, when collected, be paid into the Treasury of the United States under the direction of the Postmaster-General, and the 29 Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, or designated depository receiving such payment Shall give the depositor a duplicate receipt therefor,Disposition of receipts. to be retained by him in his office as a voucher, and shall forward the original to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, to be placed to the credit of the depositor in audit of his accounts.
" Approved, January 22, 1894.