Private Law 53–143

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund to the First State Bank of Mound City, Illinois, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventeen cents, being the amount of pension check numbered one hundred and fifty-three thousand two hundred and forty-four, issued by I. Clements as pension agent at Chicago, Illinois, bearing date July twenty-sixth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety, and payable to the order of Ida Hudson (now Ida Carter), and which said cheek was cashed by said First State Bank of Mound City, Illinois, which said check was after the time of said payment supposed to bear the forged indorsement of the payee, and which said indorsement has since been ascertained to be genuine.