FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. OHS. 529-531. 1899. 1565 S} CHAP. 529.-An Act Directing the issue of a check in lieu of a lost check drawn Much 3, 1899- hv li. C. Newcomer, captain of engineers, in favor of Stone and Stansell. W; Whereas it appears that H. C. Newcomer, captain of engineers at Pr¤=¤¤b1¤· Memphis, Tennessee, on December fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, did issue a check, numbered three hundred and eighty-one thousand seven hundred and forty-one, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, to the order of Stone and Stansell, for the sum of three thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars and two cents, being in part payment under a contract for levee construction and retained percentage, Lower Yazoo District, improving Mississippi River; and Whereas said check was subsequently lost in transmission through the mails to New York, and the amount thereof has never been received by said Stone and Stansell or their assigns; and Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen Vol-wp-_306. hundred and eighty-Eve, amending section thirty-six hundred and forty- R'S"“°°"*°‘°·*" m‘ 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, V Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That said H. G. Newcomer, _ H- 0- N9Wc0mer to captain of engineers, be, and is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate Z§f§{,°{Ql"’h°“*“ °f l°“‘ of said original check to Stone and Stansell, 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. Approved, March 3, 1899. CHAP. 530.-An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the naval record of M¤f¤h3.1899- Charles Thompson. W"`”"’“ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy <;h¤rl¤—¤T1w¤·r¤¤¤- be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remove the charge of ,,,§g{§‘,§f§ "°"°"""° desertion standing on the rolls of the United States steamship Wissa— hickon against the name of Charles Thompson, of date June twenty-iirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and to issue and transmit to him a discharge as of that date, no pay or other emoluments shall become due or payable by reason of the passage of this Act. Approved, March 3, 1899. CHAP. 531.-An Act To remove the charge of desertion from the record of Michael M¤¤'°b 3~ 1989- Baker. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States (J America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ggiaglogisggghion Navy bc, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remove the ,.,,,,,,,~.§§ ,,0,,, Nav;] charge of desertion from the record of Michael Baker, formerly of r°°°"* 0** the United States steamer Brooklyn: Provided, That no pay or other gvgev-em emolument shall become due and payable by reason of the passage y’ ' of this Act. Approved, March 3, 1899.
