Private Law 70–372

That the Postmaster General is authorized and directed to credit the account of Arthur C. Lueder, postmaster at Chicago, Illinois, in the sum of $20,474.92, and to certify such credit to the General Accounting Office, as follows : $19,468.50, being an amount charged in the postal account due to the cashing of war savings stamps in the year 1924 which were found by the Treasury Department to be counterfeit and charged back to the postmaster’s account; $100, being an amount charged in the money-order account due to the cashing by the postmaster of money order in favor of Mrs. J. J. Allred for which a duplicate order had been issued; $52.50, being an amount charged in the money-order account due to the cashing of a check of the Veterans’ Bureau in favor of Nannie Thornton Worthy with money-order funds, which the General Accounting Office held was wrongfully issued and which the Treasury Department charged back to the postmaster’s account; $853.92, being an amount charged in the postal savings account due to the misappropriation of funds in such post office; for which amounts the postmaster was in no way responsible, and which occurred without fault or negligence on his part.