Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Part V · Chapter 115 — Evidence; Documentary
§ 1743. Demand on postmaster
Statutory text
The certificate of the Postmaster General or the Government Accountability Office of the mailing to a postmaster of a statement of his account and that payment of the balance stated has not been received shall be sufficient evidence of a demand notwithstanding any allowances or credits subsequently made. A copy of such statement shall be attached to the certificate.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Title 28, United States Code, section —
Pub. L. 80–646 · 62 Stat. 869
Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 1743
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 948
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 948GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004
Pub. L. 108–271 § 8(b) · 118 Stat. 811
Substituted · 28 U.S.C. § 1743
Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) References.— Any reference to the General Accounting Office in any law, rule, regulation, certificate, directive, instruction, or other official paper in force on the date of enactment of this Act shall be considered to refer and apply to the Government Accountability Office.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 670 (R.S. § 890; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, § 301, 42 Stat. 23).
Provisions in section 670 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., that the statement should recite that a letter has been mailed to a described post office and sufficient time has elapsed for it to have reached its destination, was omitted as superfluous.
The last clause of section 670 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was omitted as covered by the phrase “notwithstanding any allowances or credits subsequently made” in the revised section.
Changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2004—Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
The office of Postmaster General of the Post Office Department was abolished and all functions, powers, and duties of the Postmaster General were transferred to the United States Postal Service by Pub. L. 91–375, § 4(a), , 84 Stat. 773, set out as a note under section 201 of Title 39, Postal Service.
Credits
1948–2004 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 948
- 2004Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 948; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.)