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 1334 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 62, 68, 69, 71. 1891. appropriated, to re—imburse Charles N. Felton, formerly assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco, Cali orma, for losses incurred by him in the payment of forged United States d1s- bursing officers’ checks, the same having been paid without default or neg igence on his part. Approved, January 8, 1891. . January1S, 1891. CHAP. 68.-An act directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check drawn by De Blois and Company. Pmmble- Whereas it appears that A. W. Beard, collector of customs at the port of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, did, on the eighth day of Se tember, eighteen hundred and ninety, issue a check, numbered one lllundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and sixty-six,u n the assistant treasurer of the United States at said · Boston, in tlagror of De Blois and Company, for the sum of four thou- - sand two hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty-nine cents, being for the refund of certain duties exacted in excess of the legal rate, which check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails; and v¤1.2s,p. acc. Whereas the provisions of the act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred and 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 mP`;f’*°¤ wd °°m· United States of America in Congress assembled, That said A, W, Duplicate cueekw. Beard be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check, under suc regulations in regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury or the issue of duplicate checks under the provisions of section B.S.,sec.U46.p.717. glzirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United ates. Approved, January 12, 1891. Jmmu-y12,1s¤1. CHAP. 69.-An act to pension Mary Jane Martin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mary Jane Martin. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary °°”"’“· of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to lace on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations ol) the pension laws, the name of Mary Jane Martini, of the city of Washmgton, in the District of Columbia, widow of Andrew Martin, deceased, late a private in Captain James P. Barker’s company of Colonel Smith’s regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Indian war of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and pay her a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month. Approved, January 12, 1891. ‘ January X3, 191. CHAP. 'I1.·—An act for the relief of Abraham Lisner. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives o the §,§'§{?§d'“,,.,,I*‘{§',°" United States of America in Congress assembled Elllhat all real egtate
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