April 25, 1904.
[S. 2034.]
[Private, No. 1440.]
Preamble.
Whereas it appears that Arthur J. Pritchard, pay director of the United States Navy, did, on the twentieth day of October, nineteen hundred and two, issue a check, numbered thirty-nine thousand three hundred and forty-one, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore, Maryland, in favor of the Davis Coal and Coke Company, of West Virginia, for the sum of two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents, in payment for coal delivered to the bureaus of yards and docks and construction and repair, United States Navy-Yard, at Brooklyn, New York; and
Whereas the said check was duly received at the offices of the said Davis Coal and Coke Company, number one Broadway, New York, on October twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, and the same was forwarded immediately upon receipt to Arthur Lee, treasurer of the said Davis Coal and Coke Company, at Elkins, West Virginia; and
Whereas the said Arthur Lee, treasurer of the said Davis Coal and Coke Company, does not acknowledge the receipt of said check at the office of the said company at Elkins, West Virginia, and which said check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails, and the said check not having been presented to the said assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore, Maryland, for payment; and
Vol. 23, p. 306.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, Davis Coal and Coke Company, W. Va.
Duplicate check to.That said Arthur J. Pritchard, pay director of the United States Navy, be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check to the Davis Coal and Coke Company, or, in case said Pritchard shall cease to be in the service of the United States, R.S., sec. 3646, p. 717.then the amount shall be paid under the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the regulations issued in pursuance thereof by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, April 25, 1904.
April 26, 1904.
[H.R. 2009.]
[Private, No. 1441.]
Sven J. Johnson.
Duplicate bonds issued to.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue duplicates to the legal representative of Sven J. Johnson, also known as John Johnson, in lieu of United States four per centum registered bonds, funded loan of nineteen hundred and seven, numbered forty-five thousand three hundred and sixty-nine, forty-five thousand three hundred and seventy, forty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-two, forty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-three, for one hundred dollars each, inscribed in the name of John Johnson, and alleged to have been stolen after having been assigned in blank: Proviso.
Indemnity bond Provided, That the said legal representative shall first file in the Treasury a bond in the penal sum of double the amount of the principal of said bonds and the interest that would accrue thereon to the date of their maturity, with good and sufficient sureties, residents of the United States, to
