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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 30 STAT. · December 21, 1898 · Chapter 37

Chapter 37. To pay J. and W

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Chap. 37: To pay J. and W. Seligman and Company the sum of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-six cents for certain coupons detached from United States bonds, which said coupons were lost on the Cunard steamship Oregon, sunk at sea March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Chapter 37 30 Stat. 1502 1898-12-21 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 30 private chap. 37.— An Act To pay J. and W. Seligman and Company the sum of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-six cents for certain coupons detached from United States bonds, which said coupons were lost on the Cunard steamship Oregon, sunk at sea March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. December 21, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United J. and W. Seligman & Co., payment to, for lost coupons, etc.States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to J. and W.
Seligman and Company the sum of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-six cents, in full payment for the following-described coupons detached from United States bonds, which said coupons were lost on the Cunard steamship Oregon, sunk at seaFIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 37–39. 1898.1503 March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to wit: United States four and one-half per centum loan of eighteen hundred and ninety-one: Coupons due March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six—fifty-six cents, numbered eleven hundred and sixty-eight; five dollars and sixty-two cents, numbered seventy-one hundred and twenty-five; eleven dollars and twenty-five cents, numbered sixteen thousand two hundred and nineteen to sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty-eight, inclusive, thirty-one thousand two hundred and sixty six, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-three to thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, inclusive, and seventy seven thousand three hundred and thirty-two.
Coupons due December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, five dollars and sixty-three cents, numbered eighty-five hundred and twenty-five, and eleven dollars and twenty-five cents, numbered sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty-six. United States four per centum loan of nineteen hundred and seven: Coupons due January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six—fifty cents, numbered two thousand and ninety-eight; one dollar, numbered seventy nine thousand three hundred and sixty-five, eighty thousand four hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and forty, one hundred and seventy-three thousand six hundred and sixty-four, one hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and ten dollars, numbered one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-four: *Provided*, That before the redemption of*Proviso*.Bond of indemnity. said coupons the said J. and W.
Seligman and Company shall execute, or cause to be executed, and deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, with good and sufficient security, subject to the approval of said Secretary, to secure the United States against loss or damage in consequence of the redemption of said coupons. Approved, December 21, 1898.
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