Chapter 12. To amend the Act approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as amended by the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six
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CHAP. 12.— An Act To amend the Act approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as amended by the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.January 21, 1914.[[H. R. 9321](/us/bill/63/hr/9321).][[Public, No. 49](/us/pl/63/49).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postmasters.Claims for losses.Vol. 25, p. 135. That the Act authorizing the Postmaster General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss Vol. 29, p. 458, amended.by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty, approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as amended by the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: 279 " “That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to Postmaster General to investigate and pay claims for losses by casualty.Additional funds included.investigate all claims of postmasters for the loss of money-order funds, postal funds, postal savings funds, postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, postal savings cards, postal savings stamps, and postal savings certificates belonging to the United States in the hands of such postmasters, and for the loss of key-deposit funds, funds deposited to cover postage on mailings, and funds received as deposits to cover orders for stamped envelopes, in the hands of such postmasters, resulting from burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty, and if he shall determine that such loss resulted from no fault or negligence on the part of such postmasters, to pay to such postmasters or credit them with the amount so ascertained to have been lost or destroyed, and also to credit postmasters with the amount of any remittance of money-order funds, postal funds, or postal savings funds made by them in compliance with the instructions of the Postmaster General, which shall have been lost or stolen while in transit by mail from the office of the remitting postmaster to the office designated as his depository, or after arrival at such depository office and before the postmaster at such depository *Provisos*.Losses over $10,000 to be reported to Congress.office has become responsible therefor: *Provided*, That no claim exceeding the sum of 810,000 shall be paid or credited until after the facts shall have been ascertained by the Postmaster General and reported to Congress, together with his recommendation thereon, and an appropriation made therefor: *And provided further*, That this Limitations.Act shall not embrace any claim for losses as aforesaid which accrued more than four years prior to the date of approval of this Act; and all such claims must be presented within six months after such date, and no claim for losses which may hereafter accrue shall be allowed unless presented within six months from the time the loss occurred.”" Sec. 2.
That it is hereby made the duty of the Postmaster General Annual report.to report his action herein to Congress annually, with his reasons therefor in each particular case. Approved, January 21, 1914.