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 990 13d CON GRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 579. JUNE 18, 1934 . [CHAPTER 579 .] June 1S, 1934 . AN ACT [S.3766.] To amend the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to [Public, No . 386.] adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other un- avoidable casualty", approved March 17, 1882, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate a nd House of Re presentatives of the Postal service. United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the first sen- Vol. 22, p*4 4,P. 29; Vol. 38, c. p. 279; Vol. 903 . tence of the Act entitled An Act authorizing the Postmaster Gen- vI, p87. 123 7 s u p p , eral to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty ", approved March 17, 1882 (22 Stat . 29), as amended (U .S .C ., Supp . VII, title 39, see. 49), be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows : of postmasters and A claims " The Po stmast er Gen eral may in vestig ate al l cla ims of post- Navy mail cl erks for masters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy snail clerks for the e losses tc. by burglary, am, loss of money-order funds, postal funds, postal-savings funds, post- age stamps, stamped envelops, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, postal-savings cards, postal-savings stamps, postal-savings certificates, Int ernal revenu e and United States war-savings certificate stamps, United States Gov- Federal migratory bird ernment thrift stamps, war-tax revenue stamps, internal-revenue bunti ng s tamps add ed- stamps, Federa l migratory b ird hunting s tamps, and fun ds received from the sale of such stamps belonging to the United States in the hands of such postmasters, Navy mail clerks, or assistant Navy mail clerks, 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 en velops, in th e hands of su ch postmasters, Navy mail clerks, or assistant Navy mail clerks, and for losses of customs charges collected on dutiable mail articles occurring after April 1, 1924, resulting from burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty, ure IA since n es by April 1, bank 1924fall. ' and for the loss occurring after April 1, 1924, by bank failure of any such funds deposited in National or State banks, and if he shall determine that such loss resulted from no fault or negligence on the part of such postmasters, Navy mail clerks, or assistant Navy mail clerks, may pay to such postmasters, Navy mail clerks, or assistant Navy mail clerks, or credit them with the amount so ascertained to have been lost or destroyed, and may also credit postmasters, Navy mail clerks, o r assistant N avy mail cler ks with the am ount of any remittance of money-order funds, postal funds, postal-savings funds, funds received from the sale of United States war-savings certificate stamps, United States Government thrift stamps, war-tax revenue stamps, Federal migratory bird hunting stamps, and internal-reve- nue stamps, or other public 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, Navy mail clerk, or assistant Navy mail clerk to the office designated as his depository, or after arrival at such depository office and before the postmaster at such depository office has become responsible therefor, or to the postmaster at any other post office, or to the proper customs officer in the case of customs charges collected, and authorized shipments of postage and other stamp stock lost while in transit by mail from one postmaster, Navy mail clerk, or assistant Navy mail clerk to another postmaster, Navy ma il cle rk, or assista nt Nav y mail clerk, or to or from the Po st Off ice Department, and such funds remitted after April 1, 1924, in coin- pliance with instructions of the Postmaster General in the form of drafts or checks which have been returned unpaid or dishonored by reason of the closing of the banks issuing such drafts or checks