Private Law 46–7

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and ho is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Doddridge and Davis, bankers of Corpus Christi, Texas, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-nine cents in lieu of check number forty-live thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, on the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, dated the fifteenth day of October eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, payable to Messrs Doddridge Davis and Caden or order and signed by E. B. Atwood, captain and assistant quartermaster, brevet major United States Army, which check it is claimed was indorsed by said Doddridge Davis and Caden to said Doddridge and Davis and by them, Doddridge and Davis, indorsed, but lost in transmission by mail, to the

Proviso.

Marine National Bank of the city of New York was never received by said Marine National Bank and was never paid: Provided, That before the payment hereinbefore authorized, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that said check has not been paid, and further that the said

Bond of indemnity.

Doddridge and Davis shall execute a bond of indemnity to the United States, with sufficient sureties, against the claim of the payees in, or the endorsees of, said draft, or the claim of any person or persons in possession of or claiming the same; and also to fully indemnify the United

Prohibits paying lost check to any person.

States against all loss and damages in the premises. And the Treasury Department of the United States is hereby prohibited from paying said lost check to any person.