Chapter CLVI. for the relief of Archibald Bard and John Findley, executors of the last will and testament of Doctor Robert Johnson, deceased, and for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Yeates, deceased
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Chap. CLVI.— An Act for the relief of Archibald Bard and John Findley, executors of the last will and testament of Doctor Robert Johnson, deceased, and for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Yeates, deceased. May 26, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * Claim of Bard and Findley, executors, &c. on account, of three loan office certificates, to be settled. That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be authorized to audit and settle the claim of Archibald Bard and John Findley, executors of the last will and testament of Doctor Robert Johnson, deceased, on account of three several Loan Office Certificates, issued to, and in the name of Doctor Isaac Foster, for the sum of four hundred dollars each, and numbered six thousand three hundred and thirty-one, six thousand three hundred and thirtynine, and six thousand three hundred and forty, and to ascertain the true specie value of the same, with interest at six per centum per annum thereon, (which certificates are alleged to have been lost or stolen, and appears, by the books of the treasury, to be outstanding and unpaid,) and that the amount so ascertained, as aforesaid, be paid to the said executors, or either of them, out of any money in the treasury not Proviso.otherwise appropriated : *Provided,* That the said executors shall first execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with such sufficient security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve.
Sec. 2. Payment to John Scott of the specie value of a loan certificate. *And be it further enacted, *That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be authorized to pay to John Scott, executor of Charles Yeates, deceased, the specie value of a Loan Office Certificate issued to, and in the name of Edward Watkins, for the sum of five hundred dollars, and numbered eight thousand four hundred and ninety-two. Approved, May 26, 1828.