An Act to authorize the Postmaster General to issue duplicate checks without requiring bond when such checks of the Post Office Department are lost while in the custody of the United States or lost without fault of owner or holder
PL 82-276 (S.1411), enacted 03/10/1952

PUBLIC LAW 275-MAR. 7, 1952 
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Re computation. 
Effective date. 
determine is or are legally entitled tlieieto. Any payment made 
by the Auditor under this section shall be a bar to a recovery b}^ 
any other person." 
SEC, 10. The annuities of all teachers retired prior to the effective 
date of this Act shall be recomputed in accordance with the provisions 
of section 4 of this Act within ninety days after the approval of this 
Act retroactive to the effective date of this Act, and no recomputation 
shall be made which will reduce the annuity received by any retired 
teacher: Provided^ That the average annual salary during any five 
consecutive years, specified in section 4 of this Act, upon which the 
annuity is based shall be within the last ten years of allowable service 
in the public schools of the District of Columbia: Provided 
further. 
That the increased amount of the annuity resulting therefrom shall be 
a straight life annuity without any insurance or death benefits of any 
kind. 
SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second 
month following its enactment. 
Approved March 6, 1952. 
March 7. 1952 
[S. 1710] 
Public Law 275 
CHAPTER 96 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Seci'etavy of the Army to convey certain road right-of-way 
easements in De Kalb and Putnam Counties, Tennessee, to the State of 
Tennessee. 
Tennessee. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized to convey to the State of Tennessee, without 
reimbursement, all the right, title, and interest of the United States 
in and to those certain road right-of-way easements over lands in 
De Kalb and Putnam Counties, Tennessee, acquired by the United 
States for use as an access road to the Center Hill Dam and Reservoir, 
all as set out on sheets 4 to 16, inclusive, of highway drawing dated 
March 1942, designated as "Right Bank Access Road—Dam Site to 
Silver Point" on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of 
the Army. 
Approved March 7, 1952. 
March 10, 1952 
Public Law 276 
CHAPTER 97 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Postmaster General to issue duplicate checks without requir-
ing bond when such checlvs of the Post Ollice Department ai-e lost wiiile 
in the custody of the United States or lost without fault of owner or holder. 
Post Office De-
partment che'cks. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the proviso 
in section 3646 (e) of the Revised Statutes of the United States (81 
U. S. C. 528 (e)) is amended to read as follows: '"''Provided^ That when 
the Postmaster General is satisfied that such loss, theft, or destruction 
occurred without fault of the owner or holder or while any check 
was in the custody or control of the Post Office Department or in 
the mails, the Postmaster General may, in lieu of an indemnity bond, 
authorize the issuance of a substitute check or warrant upon such 
affidavit as he may prescribe, to be made by the payee or owner of 
an original check." 
Approved March 10, 1952.