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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · June 18, 1878 · Chapter 299

Chapter 299. authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Mary Fear on and Jessie Crossin, executrices of Samuel P

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CHAP. 299.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Mary Fear on and Jessie Crossin, executrices of Samuel P. Fearon, deceased, for certain registered United States bonds redeemed by the government on forged assignments and power of attorney.June 18, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mary Fearon, Jessie Crossiu. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and ho is hereby, authorized Payment to.and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mary Fearou and Jessie Crossin, as executrices of Samuel P.
Fearon, deceased, late of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or to the legal personal representatives of said Samuel P. Fearon, deceased, the sum of four thousand dollars, with the lawful interest which would have accrued thereon from the date of the last payment of interest to the legal personal representatives of said Samuel P. Fearon, deceased, upon the following certificates of registered stock of the United States, redeemed or assigned upon forged power of attorney and forged assignment, to wit: number two thousand and eighty-one, act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for one thousand dollars, 1864, ch. 17,13 Stat., 13.and numbers three thousand four hundred and twenty-four, three thousand four hundred and twenty-five, three thousand four hundred and twenty-six, three thousand four hundred and twenty-seven, three thousand four hundred and twentyeigbt,and three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine, act of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 1862, ch. 33,[12 Stat. 345.](/us/stat/12/345)for five hundred dollars each, the property of said estate; the said payment of principal and interest to be made according to the terms and stipulations of the said original certificates.
Approved, June 18, 1878.
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