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[CITE: 31USC3127]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                   SUBTITLE III--FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
 
                         CHAPTER 31--PUBLIC DEBT
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--ADMINISTRATIVE
 
Sec. 3127. Credit to officers, employees, and agents for stolen 
        Treasury notes
        
    When an officer, employee, or agent of the United States Government 
authorized to receive, redeem, or cancel Treasury notes receives or pays 
a note that was stolen and put in circulation after it had been received 
or redeemed by an officer, employee, or agent authorized to receive or 
redeem the note, the Secretary of the Treasury may allow the officer, 
employee, or agent receiving or paying the stolen note a credit for the 
amount of the note. The Secretary may allow the credit only if the 
Secretary is satisfied that the note was received or paid in good faith 
and in exercising ordinary prudence.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 947.)

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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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3127.................................  31:740.                         R.S. Sec
.  3707.
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    The word ``employee'' is added for consistency with other titles of 
the United States Code. The words ``of the United States Government'' 
are added for clarity and consistency. The word ``duly'' is omitted as 
surplus. The words ``issued by authority of law'' are omitted as 
unnecessary. The words ``which has subsequently thereto'' are omitted as 
unnecessary. The words ``is satisfied'' are substituted for ``upon full 
and satisfactory proof'' to eliminate unnecessary words.
