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 167 2 FIFTY-SIXTH coueanss. Sess. 11. GHS. 201-203. 1901. 1"€b1‘¤*`*FY 5· 1901- CHAP. 201.-Au Act For the promotion and retirement of Passed Assistant Sur- —""`""H"` geon John F. Bransford, of the United States Navy. _ 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatiees of the United - {,‘;§§,,{“`,;,§§,’f"},§ffd,iS States of America in Congress assembled, Tlidlt the President be, and pggggu %§1§gg$t§g;; is hereby, authorized and empowered to appoint Passed Assistant Surigzea. ‘ geon Jo n F. Bransford a surgeon in the Navy of the United States, and then place the name of said Bransford on the retired list thereof. Approved. February  1901. ‘ Fébfuafy 5. 1901- CHAP. 202.-An Act Directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check drawn by '_HH`”_` E. B. Atwood, lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general, United States Army, in favor of Alfred C. Cass. P*°“m*’l°· Whereas it appears that E. B. Atwood, lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general, United States Army, did, on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, issue a check, numbered one hundred and thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-five, upon the First National Bank at Denver, Colorado, in favor of Alfred C. Cass, vice-president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com any, of Denver, Colorado, for the sum of three thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and thirteen cents, in payment for coal delivered to the United States Quartermaster’s Department at Fort Logan, Colorado; and Whereas the said Alfred C. Cass, vice-president of said Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, does not acknowledge the receipt of said check at the office of said company at Denver, Colorado, and which check is · alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails, and 'the said check not having been presented to said First _ National Bank at Denver, Colorado, for payment; and g §°é-2§ég·$é p ,,7 Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen ` "`` hundred and eig ty-five, amending section thirty-six hundredancl forty- six, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing United States disbursing officers and agents to issue duplicates of lost checks, a ply only to checks drawn for two thousand five hundred dollars or l)ess: Therefore, r Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re Jresentatices of the United su§·£,p’§Q_j’·f€e9‘}),"}g;, States of America in Congress assembled, That said E. B. Atwood, cheek. lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermastengeneral, United States Army, be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check to Alfred C. Cass, under such regulations in regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the issue of duplicate checks, under the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended. M Approved, February 5, 1901. February 5, 1901. CHAP. 203.—An Act Granting an increase of pension to F. W. Baker. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRe esentatioes of the United §é,`;'§{01;¤§£med States of America in Congress assembled, Tbdlt the Secretary of the iInterior be, and lie is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of F. W. Baker, late of Company I, Tenth Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Approved, February 5, 1901.