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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 519-522. 1903. 1607 CBA1f. 519.-An Act Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn F*>b¤'¤¤¤' 7» 1903· by Captain E, O. Fechet, disbursing officer United States Signal Service Corps, in favor of the Bishop Gutta Percha Company. ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Resentatilves of the United States of America in Congress assembled, mt Captain E. O. Fechet, O‘§i¤h0PG¤¤¤P¤¤‘¢¤¤ disbursing officer United States Signal Corps, be, and he is hereby, iiliiiiibiie eueekm. authorize and directed to issue to the Bishop Gutta Percha Company a duplicate of an original check issued by said E. O. Fechet on the twenty-ninth day of Se tember, nineteen hundred, numbered thirty- five thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, in favor of the said Bisho Gutta Percha Company, for the sum of two thousand seven hundred and ninety-threedollars, which check is alleggd to have been lost in transmission through the clearing house fore reaching the said assistant treasurer of the United States at New York: Iirowded, That £,'g'é';';m Mm, said duplicate check shall be issued 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 of the Revised Statutes of the R· S··“°°· 3“6·P- 717- United States, including an adequate bond of indemnity. - Approved, February 7, 1903. CHAP. 520.-An Act For the relief of Colonel H. B. Freeman. F°b“m‘Y '7· 1905 Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United [P“"‘t°* N°‘ m`] States of America in Congress assembled, That Colonel H. B. Freeman, H. is. rmemlm. Twent -fourth United States Infantry, be, and is hereby, relieved R°h°‘ °*‘ from the obligation to refund the sum_ of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty cents, paid to him under a decision of the Acting Secretary of War as commutation of cpuarters while on duty as acting Indian agpnt, Osage Agency, Paw uska, Oklahoma Territory, from the tent day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, both inclusive, which decision was overruled by the Comptroller of the Treasury, notwithstanding that the monthly claims which were based upon it had been approved by the auditing officers and paid, month by month, for upwar of three years. Approved, February 7, 1903. CHAP. 521.-An Act For the relief of George P. White. ffl;:_¤{·;>;_7. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and Ilmwe ofR¥rresentati*ues of the Miited U`""‘"°‘ N°‘ **2*] States of America in Cbngress assembled, That the Secretary of the oeorgw. wnns. Treasury be, and he is hereby. authorized and directed to release Cap- '“`““’°'· tain George P. Wlhite, Ninth United States Cavalry, from all liability resulting from the loss of four thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-six cents, the unrecovered balance of stolen quartermaster funds for which he was responsible, the said sum now being charged against him on the books of the Treasury Department. Approved, February 7, 1903. CHAP. 522.-An Act Granting an increase of pension toalames Hunter. February T. 19il|;_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House g`R%pre·sentat£z·es of t/te Un ited [P"“"°· ”°· *53-] States q/'Ameriea in Congress asaemb d, hat the Secretary of the James num. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the *’°‘“‘°“ *“°'°°’°°· pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of James Hunter', late of Captain Hardin’s company, Georgia Volunteers, Creek Indian war, and pay him a pension at the rate of sixteen dollars per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Approved, February 7, 1903.