Volume 29
Private Law 54–13
For the relief of the Independence National Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Approved February 7, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of the Independence National Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Whereas it appears that V. McNally, captain and ordnance
Preamble.
store-keeper, Ordnance Department, United States Anny, 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 thirty-eight, 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-five dollars and twenty-three cents, being in part payment tor 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
Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred and 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,
Independence National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.
Duplicate check to be issued to.
That said V. McNally, ordnance officer, United States Army, be, and is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check to the Independence National Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under such regulations in regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed by the Secretary of
R.S., sec. 3646, p. 717.
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, .