Chapter 255. To amend section thirty-nine hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes to provide for receipts for registered mail, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 255.— An Act To amend section thirty-nine hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes to provide for receipts for registered mail, and for other purposes. May 23, 1910.[[S. 7995](/us/bill/61/s/7995).][[Public, No. 189](/us/pl/61/189).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Postal service. Registered mail. That section thirty-nine hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 3928. Receipts on delivery given when requested. [R. S., sec. 3928, p. 763](/us/rs/s3928/p763), amended. Whenever the sender shall so request, a receipt shall be taken on the delivery of any registered mail matter, showing to whom and when the same was delivered, which receipt shall be returned to the sender, and be received in the courts as prima facie evidence of such delivery.” " Approved, May 23, 1910.