Chapter 340. To amend the postal laws, providing limited indemnity for loss of registered mail matter
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CHAP. 340.— An Act To amend the postal laws, providing limited indemnity for loss of registered mail matter. February 27, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section thirty-nine hundredPostal service. and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 3926. For the greater security of valuable mail matter the Postmaster-GeneralIndemnity for losses of registered matter.R.
S. sec. 3926, p. 762, amended. may establish a uniform system of registration, and as a part of such system he may provide rules under which the sender or owners of first-class registered matter shall be indemnified for losses thereof in the mails, the indemnity to be paid out of the postal revenues, but in no case to exceed ten dollars for any one registered piece, or theLimit. actual value thereof when that is less than ten dollars, and for which no other compensation or reimbursement to the loser has been made: *Provided*, That the Post-Office Department or its revenues shall not be*Proviso*.Confined to first-class matter. liable for the loss of any other mail matter on account of its having been registered.
” " Approved, February 27, 1897.