Chapter 21. To improve the methods of accounting in the Post-Office Department, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 21.— An Act To improve the methods of accounting in the Post-Office Department, and for other purposes.January 27, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal service. That the first section of the Act approved January third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, Provisions for postal notes repealed.modifying certain provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen 31 hundred and eighty-three, and entitled “An Act to modify the postalVol. 24, p. 354. money-order system, and for other purposes,” and the first section and such provisions of the second section as are applicable to postal notes of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,Vol. 22, p. 52B. entitled “An Act to modify the postal money-order system, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, repealed, but nothing herein contained shall prevent the payment, after July first, eighteen hundredPayment of notes outstanding. and ninety-four, in the manner provided by existing law, of postal notes issued prior to the t date, and any such postal notes, if presented for payment more than one year from the last day of the month of their issue, may be paid by warrant, as provided by section four of this Act in the case of money orders.
Sec. 2. That section three of the said Act of March third, eighteenMoney-order fees.[R. S., sec. 4032, p. 778](/us/rs/t/s4032/p778).Vol. 22, 527, Vol. 24, p. 88. hundred and eighty-three, as amended by the Act of June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Art to reduce the fee on domestic money orders for sums not exceeding five dollars,” be amended to read as follows: " “That a money order shall not be issued for more than one hundredOrders limited to $100. dollars, and that fees for domestic money orders shall be as follows, to wit:
“For orders not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents, three cents.Rates. “For orders exceeding two dollars and fifty cents and not exceeding five dollars, five cents. “ For orders exceeding five dollars and not exceeding ten dollars, eight cents. “For orders exceeding ten dollars and not exceeding twenty dollars, ten cents. “For orders exceeding twenty dollars and not exceeding thirty dollars, twelve cents. “For orders exceeding thirty dollars and not exceeding forty dollars, fifteen cents.
“For orders exceeding forty dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars, eighteen cents. “For orders exceeding fifty dollars and not exceeding sixty dollars, twenty cents. “For orders exceeding sixty dollars and not exceeding seventy-five dollars, twenty-five cents. “For orders exceeding seventy-five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, thirty cents.” " Sec. 3. That section four of said Act of March third, eighteen hundredClerk hire post-offices. and eighty-three, as amended by the Act of June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled, “An Act to make the allowancesVol. 22, p. 528.Vol. 24, p. 87. for clerk hire to postmasters of the first and second class post-offices cover the cost of clerical labor in the money-order business, and for other purposes,” be amended to read as follows:
" “That postmasters at money-order post offices of the first and secondMoney-order clerks, first and second class offices. classes may be allowed by the Postmaster-General to employ such number of clerks in the transaction of their money-order business, and at such rates of compensation, respectively, as he may deem expedient. “The allowances for clerk hire made to postmasters of the first andAllowances to cover all clerk hire. second class post-offices by the Postmaster-General, out of the annual appropriation for clerks in post-offices, shall cover the cost of clerical services of all kinds in such post-offices, including the cost of clerical labor in the money-order business.
“And at all other money-order post-offices the compensation for theAllowance for money order Business at other offices. clerical labor in the money-order business shall be paid out of the fees received for the issue of money orders, and shall be three cents for each domestic or international money order issued: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General*Provisos*.Additional to international exchange offices. may allow to the postmaster at each international exchange office such additional amount in each case, out of the annual appropriation for clerks in post-offices, as he play deem expedient to enable these postmasters to obtain the clerical labor necessary for the performance of such special duties as are 32 imposed upon them by the operations of the money-order system and are not required of other postmasters:
“*And provided further*, That the salaries of postmasters, as fixed byPostmasters’ pay, fall compensation for all service. law, shall be deemed and taken to be full compensation for the responsibility and risk incurred and for the personal services rendered by them as custodians of the money-order and other funds of the Post-Office Department.” " Sec. 4. That section five of said Act of March third, eighteen hundredUnpaid orders and notes.Vol. 22, p. 528.Statement to be made and eighty-three, be amended to read as follows:
" “That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department shall, as soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, transmit to the Postmaster-General a statement of the aggregate amount of domestic money orders and postal notes which shall have remained unpaid for a period of one year or more from the last day of the month of their issue. It shall be the duty of the postmasters at all money-order offices toMonthly statement, of orders remaining unpaid for one year. render to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department a monthly statement, beginning at the end of the first month of the fiscal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and ninety four, of all domestic money orders payable at their respective offices, as evidenced by advice, remaining unpaid for one year from the last day of the month of issue, such statement to be accompanied by the advice and not to include any money orders issued at a date prior to June Funds to be used as revenues.thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and the amount of money represented by the Auditor’s statement, and by the monthly statements of the postmasters, as certified to the Postmaster-General by the Auditor shall be turned into the Treasury by the Postmaster-General for account of the Post-Office Department to be used as current revenues.
Orders outstanding one year to be paid from Department.And thereafter domestic money orders shall not be paid at the offices upon which they are drawn, or at the offices of issue after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such *Post*, p. 107.money orders; but such money orders shall be sent to the Post-Office Department and shall be paid by a warrant of the Postmaster-General countersigned by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department out of any money in the Treasury to the credit of the Post-Office Department, to the extent of the moneys paid in on this account, the payments so made to be charged to an appropriation account hereby created to be denominated “Unpaid money orders more than one year old.
” " Sec. 5. That section four thousand and thirty-six of the Revised[R. S., sec. 4036, p 778, repealed](/us/rs/t/s4036/p778). Statutes of the United States be repealed. Sec. 6. That section four thousand and thirty-nine of the RevisedRecalled advices.[R. S., sec. 4 p. 778, amended](/us/rs/t/s4/p778).To be filed with accounts. Statutes of the United States be amended by adding the following: " “That it shall be the duty of the postmasters to attach to their accounts rendered to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department the letters of advice, or if lost evidence of that fact, recalled from the post office to which originally sent for all repayments of domestic money orders provided for in this section and in section four thousand and thirty eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
” " Sec. 7. That section four thousand and thirty-three of the RevisedApplication blanks.[R. S., sec. 4033, p. 778, amended](/us/rs/t/s4033/p778). Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows: " “That the Post master-General shall supply such money-order offices, as he may deem expedient, with blank forms of applications for money orders, in such form as he may direct.” " Sec. 8. That section four thousand and forty-four of the RevisedMoney-order accounts. Statutes of the United States, as amended by the legislative, [R.
S., sec. 4044, p. 779, amended](/us/rs/t/s4044/p779).Vol. 27. p. 195.executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended so as to read as follows: " “It shall be the duty of postmasters at post-offices authorized to issueTime of rendering. money orders to render to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department monthly, semimonthly, weekly, semiweekly, or daily accounts of all money orders issued and paid, of all fees received’ for 33issuing them, of all transfers and payments made from money-order funds, and of all money received to be used for the payment of money orders or on account of money-order business.
” " Sec. 9. That section four thousand and thirty-four of the RevisedForms for orders.[R. S., sec. 4034, p. 778 amended](/us/rs/t/s4034/p778). Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: " “The Postmaster-General shall furnish money-order offices with printed or engraved forms for domestic money orders in such form as will provide for coupons that, by the separation from the money orders, will designate the amounts for which the money orders are drawn, and no money order shall be valid unless drawn upon such form.
And itCoupons to be sent to Auditor. shall be the duty of postmasters to forward to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department said coupons with their money-order accounts. " Sec. 10. That the Postmaster-General may authorize postmasters atLimited money-order offices. post-offices other than those designated as money-order offices to issue money orders in the same form as provided for in the preceding section of this Act, excepting that such money orders shall be in such form as to prevent their being drawn for a sum in excess of five dollars; theOrders not to exceed five dollars.Rates.*Ante*, p. 31. rates for such money orders to be the same as those provided for in section two of this Act, and post offices so authorized shall be designated “limited money-order offices.
” Sec. 11. That section four thousand and forty of the Revised StatutesLost orders.[R. S., sec. 4040. p. 778, amended](/us/rs/t/s4040/p778). of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: " “ Whenever a money order has been lost within one year from the last day of the mouth of issue the Postmaster-General, upon the application of the remitter or payee of such order, may cause a duplicateDuplicate may be issued by Postmaster-General. thereof to be issued, without charge, providing the person losing the original shall furnish a certificate from the postmaster by whom it was payable that it has not been, and will not thereafter be, paid; and a similar certificate from the postmaster by whom it was issued that it has not been, and will not thereafter be, repaid.
“Whenever a money order, which has not been paid within one yearPayment after lapse of one year. from the last day of the month of issue, has been lost, the Postmaster-General, upon the application of the remitter or payee of such order, shall issue a warrant for the payment thereof, as provided for in section four of this Act, without charge, on the certificate of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, or upon such other proof satisfactory to the Postmaster-General, that the order has not been paid.
” " Sec. 12. That the Postmaster-General is hereby invested with powerRegulations. to make all needful regulations for the enforcement of this Act, and is hereby authorized to designate any officer of the Post-Office DepartmentOfficer to sign warrants. above the grade of fourth-class clerk to sign all warrants authorized by this Act in his stead, and such warrants when so signed shall be of the same validity as if they had been signed by the Postmaster-General. Sec. 13. That this Act shall take effect from and after the first dayEffect. of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.Repeal.
Approved, January 27, 1894.