PRIVATE ACTS 0F THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS or me UNITED STATES A Passed at the jirst session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, 1895, and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the eleventh day of June, 1896. Gnovnn Gnnvnnun, President; Aman E. Srnvmwson, Vice-President, and President of the Senate; ISHAM G. HARRIS, President of the Senate, pro tempore; on the seventh day of February, 1896, WILLIAM P. FEYE was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore; THOMAS B. REED was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on the second day of December, 1895. CHAP. 13.-An Act For the relief of the Independence National Bank of Phila- February 7, 1896. delphia, Pennsylvania. f_‘* Whereas it appears that V. McNally, captain and ordnance store- rmmbie. keeper, Ordnance Department, United States Army, did, on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, issue a check, numbered one hundred and twenty-four thousand one hundred and thirtyeight, upon the Treasurer of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia, in favor of the Midvale Steel Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the sum of thirty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-tive dollars and twenty-three vents, being in part payment for material furnished the Ordnance Department, United States Army, and said check was by the said Midvale Steel Company indorsed for deposit in the Independence National Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and so deposited and drawn against; which check was subsequently mailed by the Independence National Bank to the Treasurer of the United States to be exchanged for notes and was lost in transmission through the United States mails; and Wlnereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred aud forty- six, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing United 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 United States of America in Congress assembled, That said V. McN ally, ordinance _1¤ue£emn-¤.~e_ xi.- officer, United States Army, be, and is hereby, instructed to issue a ;,Q{;;**,,n*f**'*·1"¤¤l¤***l· duplicate of said original check to the Independence National Bank of niipnen.- check to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 sec- n. S.,sec. sem, p. uv. tion thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. Approved, February 7, 1896. Fo, I I
