Volume 69
Public Law 84–65
Relating to the payment of money orders.
Approved June 8, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
Relating to the payment of money orders.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following
Postal Service.
Money orders.
Acts or parts of Acts are hereby repealed:
Section 4 of the Act of July 16, 1894 (28 Stat. 107), as amended
Repeals.
and codified in section 730 of title 39, United States Code.
That part of the Act of May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 416), as amended and codified in section 731 of title 39, United States Code.
Section 12 of the Act of June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1229), as codified in section 725k of title 31, United States Code.
Section 5 of the Act of March 3, 1883, as amended and codified
in section 718 of title 39, United States Code.
Sec. 2.
No money order heretofore or hereafter issued shall be paid
Claims for unpaid orders.
after twenty years from tlie last day of the month of original issue. Claims for unpaid money orders shall be forever barred unless received by the Post Office Department within such twenty-year period. Any excess of funds accrued because of money orders remaining unpaid may be transferred to postal revenues at such times and in such amounts as the Postmaster General shall determine. The records of the Post Office Department shall serve as the basis for adjudicating claims for payment of money orders.
Sec. 3.
Section 2 of this Act shall take effect on the first day of the
Effective date.
sixth calendar month beginning after the date of its enactment.
Approved June 8, 1955.