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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · February 28, 1885 · Chapter 287

Chapter 287. for the relief of Melissa G

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CHAP. 287.— An Act for the relief of Melissa G. Polar.February 28, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Melissa G. Polar, auditor of District of Columbia to issue duplicate certificates to. That the Auditor of the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, ordered to issue to Melissa G. Polar two duplicate certificates, respectively, issued by the board of audit of said District, and stolen from her, numbered eighty-eight hundred and eighty-four for the sum of seventy-five dollarsand thirty-four cents, and thirteen thousand six hundred and thirty-four, for the sum of eighteen dollars and eighty cents, dated August first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Sec. 2. Bond of Indemnity. That before said auditor shall deliver to said Melissa G. Polar, the duplicate certificates as provided for in section one, she shall furnish satisfactory proof to said auditor of the loss of said certificates, and that the same have not been paid and the said Melissa G. Polar shall execute and deliver to said auditor her bond of indemnity, in double the amount of the said certificates, with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by said auditor payable to the District of Columbia, which bond shall be filed by said auditor in the archives of said office.
Sec. 3. That upon the presentation of said duplicate certificates to the Treasurer of the United States he shall redeem the same as authorized to redeem board of audit certificates by the act of Congress 1880, voL 21, ch. 213, p. 286.approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and the acts amendatory thereto. Approved, February 28, 1885.
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