Chapter 4. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a duplicate of a certain land warrant to Emma A
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CHAP. 4.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a duplicate of a certain land warrant to Emma A. Ripley.December 13, 1894 *Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Emma A. Ripley. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue to Emma A. RipleyLand warrant to issue to. duplicate of one Porterfield land warrant issued in pursuance of the Act of Congress approved April eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty,Vol. 12, p. 836. numbered sixty, for forty acres, upon satisfactory proof of ownership and loss of same, and the execution of a bond, with good and sufficientBond. sureties, in double the market value of the warrant so to be issued, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, conditioned to indemnify the United States against the presentation by an innocent holder of the alleged lost warrant; and that said duplicate shall have all the legal force and effect as had the original.
Approved, December 13, 1894.