Chapter CCCXCIX. for the Relief of Joseph A
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CHAP. CCCXCIX.— An Act for the Relief of Joseph A. Clay, of Philadelphia. June 8, 1872. Whereas under the treaty of indemnity between the United States andPreamble. Spain, concluded at Madrid on the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and under the award of the commissioner appointed to adjudicate upon claims for indemnity presented under the said treaty, awards were made for the sums of two hundred and three dollarsVol. viii. p. 460. and fourteen cents, and for six hundred and fifty-one dollars and eight cents, for which certificates numbers forty-three and one hundred and thirty were issued and became the property of Joseph A.
Clay, of the city of Philadelphia, and the said certificates have been lost for many years and cannot be found, and it is alleged that there is no authority in any of the Departments to issue new certificates to replace them: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue certificates of Spanish indemnity to Joseph A. Clay, forCertificates of Spanish indemnity to be issued to Joseph A.
Clay. the sums of two hundred and three dollars and fourteen cents and six hundred and fifty-one dollars and eight cents, and he is hereby empowered so to do, to be held by the said Joseph A. Clay in lieu and stead of like certificates of the same kind and amount, and to bear the same date as the said original certificates: *Provided,* That the said claimant shall giveProviso. security in double the amount of the said awards that no claim shall be made upon the said lost certificates, or that, if any such claim shall be established thereon, he will return and cancel the said new certificates.
Approved, June 8, 1872.