Chapter CXXVII. for the Relief of Martin Watkins, of East Windsor, Connecticut
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CHAP. CXXVII.— An Act for the Relief of Martin Watkins, of East Windsor, Connecticut. April 29, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * New bonds to be issued to Martin Watkins. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue two new bonds of fifty dollars each, with coupons from that of January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to Martin Watkins, of East Windsor, Connecticut, in place of two coupon bonds of fifty dollars-each, numbered twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-one,1865, ch. 82.
Vol. xiii. p. 498. respectively, act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and issue of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which said bonds above named Bond of indemnity.were destroyed by flood: *Provided,* That before issuing the new bonds the Secretary of the Treasury shall require a sufficient bond of indemnity securing the government against the presentation of the aforesaid bonds alleged to have been destroyed. Approved, April 29, 1872.