Show I Checks for Less Than One Dollar Are Infringement on Federal LaW ACT OF CONGRESS Xo No person salt pall make issue or circulate or payout pay out an any note nole check memorandum um or other for u a less own than Il a dollar Intended to circulate ns as mono or orto orto to be n received and used In lieu lieu cr cf lawful money or of the United States and OCr every person so offending shull be fined not moro than or Im ha ImprIsoned not more than 81 six months month II or both bolh is 15 nn an act passe passed b by the last Con Congress gress s which has received a number or of Interpretations b by the bankers and bus mess men man of oC SnIt Salt Luke hake It is III almost unnecessary to say that neither the lot let letter I ter nor the p presumed purpose of oC the II Ian has been heeded ed In fact It hM has becil an unknown quantity and hav haa only I been called to 10 the tho attention ot of both buln business mon men and bankers h by the tho press Its ILs II a new nets ono one to me said U S Dist All Atty Booth r I have hoo not had hul It called to m my attention before We 0 have little to do with issuing checks In In this department of Uncle Sams an and andI I 1 really cant an 51 anything about It It probably has It Its service to perform or It would not have boon been placed upon tho Iho statutes Mr utcher the clerk of oC the tho federal court was just os as much In the thc dark In regard tl to the la law I suppose that I am liable to all sorts of Sacs said Ins he this momin There Then is IR hard hardly hardly ly n a day goes b by but what I 1 checks for less than 1 an and I 1 have been doing It right along I know anything about Jl it and I 1 dont think that I will pay ans to 10 it until I get a notification from m my boss bon Say original said Mr 11 Fame worth onh or of Walker Brothers banic I 1 cannot imagine what tt was passed for tor torr forI r I am euro Iura that tho bankers ot of the tho coun countr country tr try are arc not cognizant ot of the tho law for tor there is 13 not a day cIa when wo 0 do 10 not ro 10 an and handle man many checks for Cor less than one dollar that 1 was the Inquiry or of a gentleman who had hacI overheard the tho con It developed d that the In InquIsitor was Joseph Josph former U S distrIct attorney Ho He read over Ocr th the stal te carefully i Why h plain ho he said The means that no check under 1 can be circulated as legal tender It has hal been made as 15 a means to 10 prevent paper taking tune the place of oC coin or cur currency rne rency An Any check may nUl be drum for I less s than thun the R specified cI amount but it must not fro be from bank to bank I or tram from bank to commercial house without having been liquidated all there le Is to that It is unnecessary to IJ say that the new nets Ce federal law is not causing any trouble amon among the tho bankers banker or of SnIt Salt Lake Incidentally it Il might be 00 noted that all of the United States who ml make kt remittances to other than the tho co are cautioned to sell scud them In In n drafts less than 1250 Deputy U S Marshal alSha Myron lon while agent at the tho Indian re reservation near Ft Fl had an In sending through tho moils which teas ns lust lost and It took four years ea ruin an act ot of Congress to got It back for him There are arc n a number of thinKS things which tIlt the or of Uncle Sam roust must not do which seen leem right to the ordinary mortAl but which du do not hitch with watt the laws or of the country |