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FORTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 43, 45, 50. 1882. 651 in procuring the extradition of William Johnson, a fugitive from justice, charged with uttering counterfeit United States Treasury notes; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 17, 1882. CHAP. 45.-An act for the relief of Susan Marshall Massie Mar. 21. 1882. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, That the United States pension Susan Mm-shall agent for paying pensions at Louisville, Kentucky, be, and is hereby, M¤¤¤i¤· _ authorized and required to issue to Susan MarshaH Massie, of Mason c Engl ‘};‘I;1,;‘ County, Kentucky, a duplicate of his check for one thousand ibur hun- ° P °°° ° ' dred and sixty-six dollars, and sixty-seven cents, dated June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and payable to the order of said Susan Marshall Massie, after said Massie shall furnish to him sufficient proof of the loss and non-reception by her and non-payment of said original check ; and said duplicate shall be paid to her, or order, as if the original was presented: Provided, That she execute the bond, with security, Pmmo. récquired by section hundred and forty-six of the Revised tatutes. Approved, March 21, 1882. GHAP. 50.-An act directing the issue of a check to the Pequounock National Bank Mar. 23, 1£. in place of one heretofore issued to Juliaett Prescott, s pensioner of the United ·———··———- States, and lost. Whereas, the Pcquonnock National Bank of Bridgeport, which in- Preamblestitution is located at the city of Bridgeport county of Fairiield, State of Connecticut, on the fourth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventymine, mailed a letter directed to the National Shoe and Leather Bank of New York.City, inclosing, with other checks and coupons, a draft drawn by D. NV . Couch, pension agent, dated October third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, on the assistant treasurer of the United States at the city of Boston, State of Massachusetts, numbered one hundred and thirty four thousand two hundred and ten, payable m the order of and indorsed by Juliaett Prescott for the sum of one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and forty six cents, which check was cashed by said Pequonnock National Bank of the city of Bridgeport in Connecticut and made payable to said National Shoe and Leather Bank of the city of New York; and Whereas, Said Draft with the other checks and coupons mailed with the same, were lost while being transmitted by mail from said city oi Bridgeport to said city of New York; and Whereas, Duplicates have been issued for the other checks and cou- ` pons mailed with the above described draft, but no duplicate has been issued for such draft nor has the same been ever found or paid: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stale: of America in Congress assembled, Thatthe pension agent at the Duyirieeu pmcity of Boston in the State of Massachusetts begand he hereby is, iu- **3*;,;* gr- ni structed to issue a check for one thousand three undred and eighteen ° dollars and forty-six cents in favor of said Pequonnock National Bank, in lieu of the one lost in the mail October fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, said lost check being numbered one hundred and thirty- four thousand two hundred and ten, dated October third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine for the same amount drawn by D. W. pcnsicnagent at Boston, Massachusetts, payable to the order of J uhaett Prescott and by her endorsed to said bank : Provided, That said bank PWM-