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32 FIFTY-THIRD QONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 21. 1894. imposed upon them by the operations of the money-order system and are not required of other postmasters: rumuuw pay, “And provihd further, That the salaries of postmasters, as fixed by §°°'“P°”°•,¤l**°” "" law, shall be deemed and taken to be full compensation for the responsibility and risk incurred and for the personal services rendered by them as custodians of the money-order and other funds of the Post- _ Office Department? _ _ _ uspu mm an SEc. 4. That section live of said Act of March third, eighteen hun- "';,'; ,1 P M_ dred and eighty-three, be amended to read as follows: s,,Q,,,,,,,Q Qg i,, “That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Oilice Department ¤¤·¢· shall, as soon as practicable after this Act takes eifect, transmit to the Postmaster-General a statement of the aggregate amount of domestic money orders and postal notes which hall have remained unpaid for a period of one year or more from the last day of the month of their issue. mummy statement It shall be the duty of the postmasters at all money-order omces to

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a monthly statement, beginning at the end of the iirst month of the fiscal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of all domestic money orders payable at their respective offices, as evidenced by advice, remaining unpaid for one year from the last day of the month of issue, such statement to be accompanied by the advice and not to include any money orders issued at a date prior to June rum so nausea thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and the amount of money ¤~‘·¤¤·*·· represented by the Auditor’s statement, and by the monthly statements of the postmasters, as certified to the Postmaster-General by the Auditor shall be turned into the Treasury by the Postmaster-General for account of the Post~01Iice Department to be used as current revenues. om;. ouummgs And thereafter domestic money orders shall not be paid at the offices mm;. upon which they are drawn, or at the offices of issue after one year M from the last day of the month of issue of such money orders; but such 1,* P'money orders shall be sent to the Post»0Hice Department and shall be paid by a warrant of the Postmaster-General countersigned by the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Oiiice Department out of any . money in the Treasury to the credit of the Post- Office Department, to the extent of the moneys paid in on this account, the payments so made to be charged to an appropriation account hereby created to be denominated “Unpaid money orders more than one year o1d.” · ns, mmp m, SE¢·. 5. That section four thousand and thirty-six of the Revised '°P°"°"· Statutes of the United State be repealed. nsqnnu umm. Sec. 6. That section four thousand and thirty-nine of the Revised .m’f;,,Z;§,°{°"°°°‘ "'m‘ Statutes of the United States be amended by adding the following; ·r¤ be um with nc- “That it shall be the duty of the postmasters to attach to their ac- °°‘“‘"· counts rendered to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Omoo Department the letters of advice, or if lost evidence of that fact, recalled from the post-otiice to which originally sent for all repayments of domestic money orders provided for in this section and in section four theusand and thirtyeight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Appismmu umn. Sec. 7. That section four thousand and thirty-three of the Revised KS351m-w¤¤·r~"8. Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows ; ""°“ ‘ ** That the Postmaster-General shall supply such money-order offices, _ as he may deem expedient, with blank forms of applications for money orders, in such form as he may direct!" Mostyn-an M- Sec. 8. That section four thousand and forty-four of the Revised °°"“‘“· Statutes of the United States, as amended by the legislative, execu- _u§ji;2·;j°·*°**·1¤""°· tive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hun- V0l.?7.p.l96. dred and ninety-three, approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended so as to read as follows: Time or rendering- ¢· It shall be the duty of postmasters at post-offices authorized to issue money orders to render to the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post- Oilice Department monthly, semimonthly, weekly, semiweekly, or daily accounts of all money orders issued and paid, of all fees received for