Chapter 1601.
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CHAP. 1601.— AN ACT Directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check, drawn by Arthur J. Pritchard, pay director of the United States Navy, in favor of the Davis Coal and Coke Company. April 25, 1904.[[S. 2034](/us/bill/58/s/2034).][[Private, No. 1440](/us/pvtl/58/1440).] Preamble.Whereas it appears that Arthur J. Pritchard, pay director of the United States Navy, did, on the twentieth day of October, nineteen hundred and two, issue a check, numbered thirty-nine thousand three hundred and forty-one, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore, Maryland, in favor of the Davis Coal and Coke Company, of West Virginia, for the sum of two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents, in payment for coal delivered to the bureaus of yards and docks and construction and repair, United States Navy-Yard, at Brooklyn, New York; and Whereas the said check was duly received at the offices of the said Davis Coal and Coke Company, number one Broadway, New York, on October twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, and the same was forwarded immediately upon receipt to Arthur Lee, treasurer of the said Davis Coal and Coke Company, at Elkins, West Virginia; and Whereas the said Arthur Lee, treasurer of the said Davis Coal and Coke Company, does not acknowledge the receipt of said check at the office of the said company at Elkins, West Virginia, and which said check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails, and the said check not having been presented to the said assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore, Maryland, for payment; and Vol. 23, p. 306.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 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*, Davis Coal and Coke Company, W. Va. Duplicate cheek to. That said Arthur J. Pritchard, pay director of the United States Navy, be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check to the Davis Coal and Coke Company, or, in case said Pritchard shall cease to be in the service of the United States, then the amount shall be paid under the [R.
S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/s3646/p717).provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the regulations issued in pursuance thereof by the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, April 25, 1904.