Chapter 541. Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn by George A
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CHAP. 541.— An Act Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn by George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk, in favor of Fannie T. Sayles, executrix, and others. February 10, 1903.[[Private, No. 462](/us/pvtl/57/462).] Whereas it appears that George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk. Treasury Preamble.Department, did, on the nineteenth of July, nineteen hundred and two, issue a cheek, numbered eight hundred and thirteen thou-sand five hundred and fifty-three, upon the Treasurer of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia, in favor of Fannie T.
Sayles, executrix, and others, for the sum of three thousand seven hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents, being in payment for rent of a building in Indianapolis, Indiana, for quarters for Government offices; and said check was by the said Fannie T. Sayles, executrix, and others, indorsed for deposit in the Merchants’ National Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana, and so deposited, which check was subsequently mailed by the Merchants’ National Bank to its correspondent for collection, and was destroyed in it wreck on the Pennsylvania Limited on July twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and two, in trans-mission through the United States mails; and Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen Vol. 28, p. 806.[R.
S., sec. 3646 p. 717](/us/rs/s3646/p717).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 rive hundred dollars or less; Therefore, 1610 *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fannie T. Sayles, executrix.Duplicate check to.
That George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, be, and is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check, under such regulations in regard to its issue and payment tis have been prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the issue of duplicate cheeks under the provisions [R. S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/s3646/p717).of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. Approved, February 10, 1903.