Chapter 923. For the relief of the heirs of Joseph T
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CHAP. 923.— An Act For the relief of the heirs of Joseph T. Stout. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Joseph T. Stout.Payment to heirs of, authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Alfred Ford, executor of the last will and testament of Joseph T. Stout, late of Cecil County, in the State of Maryland, the sum of seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and fiftv-six cents, in full payment for the fol-lowing-described unregistered United States bond, with unpaid coupons thereon from December, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, inclusive, fifty-two coupons at five dollars and sixty-two and one-half cents each, which said bond and coupons were stolen from the said Joseph T.
Stout on the thirteenth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and is supposed to have been destroyed, to wit: Coupon bond of the United States numbered twelve thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for live hundred dollars, issued under the Act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, four and one-half per Indemnity bond.centum consols of eighteen hundred and ninety-one: *Provided,* That before the redemption of said bond and coupons the said Alfred Ford, executor as aforesaid, shall execute or cause to be executed and deposited 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 bond and coupons.
Approved, March 3, 1901.