Chapter 279. To provide for the payment of the eight per centum greenback certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 279.— An Act To provide for the payment of the eight per centum greenback certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.August 13, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Payment of legal interest, board of audit certificates, to date for redemption.Vol. 21, p.284. That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby directed to pay to the owners, holders, or assignees of all board of audit certificates redeemed by him under the Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the residue of two and thirty-five hundredths per centum per annum of unpaid legal rate interest due upon said certificates from their date up to the date of approval of said Act providing for their redemption. 278 Sec. 2.
That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby directedAugust 13, 1894. to redeem and pay all the remaining outstanding bonds of the District of Columbia, known as the “greenback eight per centum bonds,” with Redemption of 8 per cent greenback bonds.interest, as specified in said bonds, from the date of issue to the date of maturity thereof and with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of their maturity to the date of the approval of Interest.Sale of 3.65 bonds.this Act.
The Treasurer of the United States is hereby directed to sell sufficient amount of the unissued three-sixty five bonds of the District of Columbia to cover the provisions of this Act. Approved, August 13, 1894.