Chapter 32. For the relief of I
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CHAP. 32.— An Act For the relief of I. H. Hathaway and Company.January 17, 1895. Whereas it appears that Thomas H. Handbury, major, Corps ofPreamble. Engineers, United States Army, did, on the fourteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, issue a check, numbered two hundred and sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, for ten thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-four cents, on the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York in favor of I.
H. Hathaway and Company, in payment of contract work done at mouth of Saint Johns River, Florida, which check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails between Saint Augustine, Florida, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteenVol. 23, p. 306. hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred [R. S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/s3646/p717).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 to 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*,I. H. Hathaway.Duplicate check to be issued to. That the said Thomas H. Handbury, major, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, 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 [R. S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/s3646/p717).checks under the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States.
Approved, January 17, 1895.