Chapter 893. for the benefit of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and Idaho, and Nevada when a Territory
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CHAP. 893.— An Act for the benefit of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and Idaho, and Nevada when a Territory.August 4, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Claims of certain States and Territories.Vol. 12, p. 276.Vol. 22, p. 111.Certified copies of papers may be received in place of lost, etc., originals. That whenever the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War, in adjusting the claims of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and Idaho, and Nevada when a Territory, arising under acts of Congress approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (United States Statutes, volume twelve, page two hundred and seventy-six, and volume twenty-two, page one hundred and eleven), shall find that any original paper relating to the claims of said States, as provided for in said acts, shall have been lost, destroyed, or missing, upon proof thereof a copy of such paper may be certified by the proper officers of such State or Territory under their seals of office, or, if such copy cannot be furnished, any other competent secondary evidence of the contents of such paper when filed with the Secretary of the Treasury or Secretary of War, shall be received by them in lieu of such lost original papers, and used in evidence in the adjustment of their said claims in all respects as said original.
All provisions of this section applicable to States shall be equally applicable to the Territories. Sec. 2. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail threeArmy officers to be detailed to assist in examining claims.Vol. 22, p. 111. Army officers to assist him in examining and reporting upon the claims of the States and Territory named in the acts of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chapter two hundred and forty-one of the laws of the Forty-seventh Congress, and such officers, before entering upon said duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that they will carefully examine said claims, and that they will, to the best of*Post*, p. 249. their ability, make a just-and impartial statement thereof as required by said act.
Approved, August 4, 1886.