Chapter 66.
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CHAP. 66.— AN ACT for the relief of Burr S. CraftFeb. 13, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,B. S. Craft, Duplicate gold certificate. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directedBond of indemnity. to pay to Burr 8. Craft the sum of five thousand dollars in gold coin of the United States, in lien of certificate of deposit numbered twenty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-eight, issued under act of Congress approved March thirib eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, on the fourteenth day of November eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the sum of five thousand dollars, payable in the gold coin of the United States, to the order of E.
H. Birdsall, and by the said E. II. Birdsall indorsed,Feb. 13, 1879. payable to the order of Burr S. Craft, which said certificate, it is claimed, was lost or stolen on or about the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy- three: *Provided,* That, before the payment hereinbefore authorized the said Burr S. Craft shall first tile in the Treasury a bond in a penal sum double the amount of the said missing certificate, with sufficient sureties, with condition to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any daim because of the said lost or missing certificate; which bond shall be executed in the same manner and form as required under section thirty seven hundred and five of the Revised Statutes for the issue of duplicate registered interest bearing bonds of the United States.
Approved, February 13, 1879.