Chapter LXI. for the Relief of Benjamin Vanniman
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CHAP. LXI.— An Act for the Relief of Benjamin Vanniman. March 18, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the TreasuryNew bonds to be issued to Benjamin Vanniman. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to Benjamin Vanniman, of Greene county, Ohio, two ten-forty bonds for five hundred dollars each, with interest coupons, falling due after September first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, under act of March third, eighteen hundred1864, ch, 17.Vol. xiii. p. 13. and sixty-four, in lieu of two ten-forty bonds of like amounts, with coupons, &c., numbered four thousand three hundred and twenty-two and four thousand three hundred and twenty-three, issued under said act, and which, as the property of said Benjamin Vanniman, were, between the first and fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, destroyed by rats: *Provided,* that before issuing said new bonds, the Secretary of theBond of indemnity.
Treasury shall require a sufficient bond of indemnity, securing the government against the presentation of the bonds alleged to have been destroyed. Approved, March 18, 1872.