Chapter CLVIII. for the relief of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the United States
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Chap. CLVIII.— An Act for the relief of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the United States. April 29, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they hereby are authorized and directed to settle theAccount to be settled, &c. account of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the United States, for thirty-seven loan office certificates, amounting to twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars nominal, that is to say: three hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of New Hampshire; seven thousand nine hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Massachusetts; eight hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Rhode Island; twelve hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of New York; and eleven thousand five, hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Georgia; all of which had been signed by Francis Hopkinson, treasurer of loans, and countersigned by the loan officers of the states respectively, and which were destroyed by fire in the consulate office at Philadelphia, on the second day of January, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the specie value thereof, being five thousand eight hundred and three dollars thirty-five ninetieths, be paid, with interest thereon, at six per cent., from the third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, being the mean data of interest on the same as examined and stated in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, to the said John Holkar, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the said John Holkar giving a bond of indemnity to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States.
Approved, April 29, 1816.