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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · Apr. 22, 1886 · Chapter 60

Chapter 60.

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CHAP. 60.— An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver to the rightful owners the contents of certain boxes deposited in the Treasury Department by the Secretary of War.Apr. 22, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Boxes, &c., deposited in Treasury by Secretary of War to be returned to owners. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to the proper claimants or owners, any silverware, jewelry, portraits, watches, or other articles deposited in June, eighteen hundred and sixty nine, in the Treasury of the United States by the Secretary of War, as property captured by the United States Army during the late war, and now in the possession of the United States Treasury; and also any property of like character received at the Treasury Department from General Ketcham under instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That in all*Proviso*.
Proof of ownership. cases proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury be made by the said claimants of the ownership and identification of the said silverware, jewelry, portraits, watches, or other articles. Sec. 2. That all of the aforesaid articles which may remain in theArticles remaining two years to be sold. United States Treasury one year after the passage of this act shall be advertised in not less than six newspapers, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury; and all of said articles which may remain in the United States.
Treasury two years after the passage of this act shall be duly advertised and sold at public auction, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and the netProceeds. proceeds thereof be covered into the Treasury. Approved, April 22, 1886.
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