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 708 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. _Ch. 216, 217, 221. 1882. Bank of Santa Rosa the sum of one thousand and sixty-two dollars and Duplicate check- twenty cents, upon a duplicate check to be drawn in lieu of check numbered thirty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-two, drawn and dated the twenty-ninth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty, on the United States Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco, California, and nuinbered thirty-three thousand two hundred and nfty-two, payable to the order of one James M. Samuels, and indorsed by said James M. Samuels to the said Savings Bank of Santa Rosa, said check being signed by W. H. Payne United States pension agent at San Francisco, California; which said check it is claimed was lost on being sent by said . Savings Bank of Santa Rosa to the Anglo-California Bank, Limited, at _ San Francisco, and was never received 'by the said Anglo California P’°'”°'· Bank, Limited: Provided, That before the payment liereinbefore authorized the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that said check has not been paid: And provided further, That said duplicate check may be paid upon and after compliance with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, under section thirty-six hundred and ‘ R- S- W6. 717- forty six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in cases where - the amount of the draft is not over one thousand dollars, though the amount of said duplicate check exceeds that sum, but not otherwise. SECTION. 2.-That if said W. H. Payne, who issued said check shall be dead or no longer in the service of the United States when said duplicate is applied for, the proper accounting officer, mider such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall have prescribed, shall state an account in favor of the ownerof said check for the amount thereof, and charge such amount to the account of such officer or agent, as is pro- 1:, s, aan, 11s, vided by section thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States in cases where the amount for which the last * _ check was drawn was not over one thousand dollars. Approved, June 13, 1882. , June 13, Iggy CHAP. 21'l.—Au act for the relief of Josephus Hawley. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United J,,,,,,,],,,, H,,, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasley. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be issued to Josephus Duplicate check. Hawley, of Dunlap, in the State of Iowa, a duplicate check for the sum of one thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-seven cents, in lieu of a check for said amount numbered one hundred and eighty-seven thousand six hundred and sixty-eight, dated March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, drawn by Jacob Rich, UnitedStates pension agent at Des Moines, Iowa,‘upou the assistant · treasurer at New York, and heretofore lost in transmission through the Brown. mails: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisiied by proof of the loss of said original check, and the said Josephus Hawley shall executc and deliver a bond, with security to be approved by the said Secretary, for double the amount of said check, to indemnify the United States. Approved, June 13, 1882. yum, 15, [gg.; CHAP. 221.-An act for the relief of Thomas Evans and Albert T. Whiting. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Thomas Evans. States of America in Congress assembled, That the auditor of the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, authorized to issue to Thomas Evans pup;;,,,,;,, ,,,,,4;;. a duplicate certificate for one lost or burned, numbered twentyone icate of Board of thousand six hundred and nine of the Board of Audit, class six, for one $g$;;bP***"*°° °f hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty cents; and also a similar dupli- A“,,,.,“°¢I~_ Wm_ cate certificate to Albert T. Whiting ior one lost or burned, numbered ing. nineteen thousand five hundred and fifty-tive for nve hundred and