Chapter 44. For the relief of the trustee and parties who are now or who may hereafter become interested in the estate of James A
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CHAP. 44.— An Act For the relief of the trustee and parties who are now or who may hereafter become interested in the estate of James A. Chamberlain under the terms of his will. February 8, 1917.[[H. R. 13106](/us/bill/64/hr/13106).][[Private, No. 170](/us/pl/64/170).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, James A. Chamberlain. Payment to trustee, etc., of, for lost bonds. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Ferdinand M.
Holmes, trust officer of the Old Colony Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts, which institution is trustee of the estate of James A. Chamberlain, the sum of $1,600, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum is for the redemption of the following United States six per centum coupon bonds, issued under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five (consols of eighteen hundred and sixty-five), namely: Bond numbered fifty-six thousand seven hundred and forty-three, for $100, included in the fifty-third call; bond numbered seventeen thousand six hundred and twenty-six, for $500, included in the forty-ninth call; bond numbered eighty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, for $1,000, included in the fifty-third call, with interest from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the dates on which said bonds ceased to bear interest, said bonds and interest coupons attached, dated January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and subsequently, which are outstanding having been lost by the said Chamberlain on or *Proviso*.
Indemnity bond. about January fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two: *Provided*, That Ferdinand M. Holmes first file in the Treasury a bond in a penal sum equal to double the amount of principal of said bonds and the interest accrued thereon, with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, with condition to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any loss on account of the redemption of said bonds and the payment of the accrued interest thereon.
Approved, February 8, 1917.