Chapter 202. Directing the issue of a duplicate of a lest check drawn by E
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CHAP. 202.— An Act Directing the issue of a duplicate of a lest check drawn by E. B. Atwood, lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general, United States Army, in favor of Alfred C. Cass. February 5, 1901. Preamble.Whereas it appears that E. B. Atwood, lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general. United States Army. did. on tie twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, issue a deck, numbered one hundred and thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-five, upon the First National Bank at Denver, Colorado, in favor of Alfred C.
Cass, vice-president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, of Denver. Colorado, for the sum of three thousand on hundred and fifteen dollars and thirteen cents, in payment for coal delivered to the United States Quartermaster’s Department at Fort Logan Colorado; and Whereas the said Alfred C. Cass, vice-president of said Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, does not acknowledge the receipt of said cheek at the office of said company at Denver. Colorado, and which check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails, and the said check not having been presented to said First National Bank at Denver.
Colorado, for payment: and Vol. 23, p. 306.[R. S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/s3646/p717).Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred and forty- six, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing tinted States disbursing officers and agents to issue duplicates of lost decks, 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*, E.
B. Atwood to is-sue duplicate of lost check. That said E. E Atwood, lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-genera, United States Army, be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check to Alfred C. Cass, 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, as amended.
Approved, February 5, 1901.