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Public Law 54–424
To amend section one of “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act authorising the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire or other unavoidable casualty,’” approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Approved June 11, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To amend section one of “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act authorising the Postmaster-General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire or other unavoidable casualty,’” approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first proviso in section
Postal service.
Postmasters’ claims for losses.
Allowance by Department increased.
Vol. 25, p. 135.
one of said Act be so amended as to read as follows: Provided, That no claim exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be paid or credited until after the facts shall have been ascertained by the Postmaster-General and reported to Congress, together with his recommendation thereon, and an appropriation made therefor.
Approved, .