Chapter 529. Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn by H
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Chap. 529: Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn by H. C. Newcomer, captain of engineers, in favor of Stone and Stansell. Chapter 529 30 Stat. 1565 1899-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 private 1565 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 529–531. 1899. chap. 529.— An Act Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn by H.
C. Newcomer, captain of engineers, in favor of Stone and Stansell.March 3, 1899. Whereas it appears that H. C. Newcomer, captain of engineers at Preamble. Memphis, Tennessee, on December fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, did issue a check, numbered three hundred and eighty-one thousand seven hundred and forty-one, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, to the order of Stone and Stansell, for the sum of three thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars and two cents, being in part payment under a contract for levee construction and retained percentage, Lower Yazoo District, improving Mississippi River; and Whereas said check was subsequently lost in transmission through the mails to New York, and the amount thereof has never been received by said Stone and Stansell or their assigns; and Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen Vol. 23, 306.
R. S., sec. 3646, p. 717. hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred 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 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,* That said H. C. Newcomer, captain H. C. Newcomer to issue duplicate of lost check. of engineers, be, and is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check to Stone and Stansell, 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 thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1899.
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