Chapter 36. for the relief of Uriel Crocker
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CHAP. 36.— An Act for the relief of Uriel Crocker.Jan. 26, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Uriel Cracker.Coupon bonds destroyed to be paid. That the proper officer of the United States Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Uriel Crocker, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, or to his proper attorney or legal representatives, the sum of three bundled and eighty-six dollars, being the amount due upon four coupon bonds of the United States of the denomination of fifty dollars each, and upon the coupons belonging thereto which were payable from July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, both inclusive, which said bonds were of the loan of July 620 seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, payable after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, were numbered twenty-five hundred and nineteen, twenty-five hundred and twenty, twenty-five hundred and twenty-one, and twenty-five hundred and twenty-two, and have been lost and are believed to *Proviso.*have been destroyed: *Provided,* That he or they shall first file with the proper officer of the Treasury Department a satisfactory bond of indemnity in double the amount so authorized to be paid as aforesaid.
Received by the President, January 14, 1885. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]