Chapter XXVI. for the Relief of Philip Speyer & Co., of the City of New York
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Chap. XXVI.— An Act for the Relief of Philip Speyer & Co., of the City of New York.February 13, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryDuplicate certificates of stock to issue to Philip Speyer and Co. is hereby authorized to cause two certificates of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, of one thousand dollars each, with coupons of semi-annual interest from the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, attached thereto, to be issued to Philip Speyer & Co., or bearer, to replace that number of similar certificates, the property of said Speyer & Co., viz.: number one thousand and fifty-eight, issued to Corcoran and Riggs, or bearer, September first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and number eleven hundred and twenty-nine, issued to R.
L. Stuart, or bearer, September ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, which were mailed at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Germany, for New York, on902THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 42, 60, 61. 1862. the third day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, with the coupons from said first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four attached, and were never received in New York, and are therefore supposed to be lost or destroyed: *Provided,* That before the issue of such new certificates said Philip Speyer & Co. shall furnish to the acceptance of the First Comptroller of the Treasury such bond or bonds of indemnity as is usually required by the regulations of the Treasury Department for the issue of duplicate certificates of inscribed stock.
Approved, February 13, 1862.