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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · May 12, 1900 · Chapter 395

Chapter 395. To pay the General Marine Insurance Company of Dresden the sum of one thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and twelve 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

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CHAP. 395.— An Act To pay the General Marine Insurance Company of Dresden the sum of one thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and twelve 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. May 12, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, General Marine Insurance Company of Dresden.Payment to, for lost coupons.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the General Marine Insurance Company of Dresden the sum of one thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and twelve 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 sea 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 five dollars and sixty-two cents each, due March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, numbered: 343, 1049; 1219 to 1222, inclusive; 1225, 1226, 1499; 3102 to 3108, inclusive; 3706 to 3708, inclusive; 3783, 4557, 4558; 5148 to 5167, inclusive; 8616 to 8619, inclusive; 8675, 8927, 8928, 9510, 11362.
United States four and one-half per centum loan of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, coupons eleven dollars and twenty-five cents each, due March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, numbered: 1525, 7229, 7487, 8451, 8852, 12689, 14733, 21381, 29071, 31545; 32388 to 32391, inclusive; 32392 to 32400, inclusive; 33313, 33314; 33350 to 33353, inclusive; 35154, 35155, 35335; 35915 to 35924, inclusive; 38144, 38145, 39157, 43837, 44599, 44600, 44965, 44966; 44968 to 44972, inclusive; 45034, 45238, 46175, 46176, 47402, 47403, 47594, 51199, 52147, 52148, 52209, 52511, 52515, 52516, 52528, 52587; 52827 to 52831, inclusive; 54508, 54509, 54513; 54520 to 54524, inclusive; 55200, 55898, 55899, 55986, 56076, 56129, 58317, 58461, 68376, 68390, 76840, 76841, 80426, 80548; 80630 to 80632, inclusive; 105183. *Proviso.*Indemnity bond.*Provided,* That before the redemption of said coupons the said General Marine Insurance Company of Dresden shall execute, or cause to be executed, and deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in double the amount of the face value of such coupons, 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, May 12, 1900.
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