Chapter CLXIV. *for the relief of Mary M
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Chap. CLXIV.— An Act *for the relief of Mary M. Telfair.* June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That warrants for the bounty lands due to Tobias Briggs and Isaac Curtis, privates in the Rhode Island line, for revolutionaryCertain bounty land warrants to be given to her. services, shall be made out by the proper officers, and delivered to Mrs. Mary M. Telfair, the only heir and legal representative of Israel Pearce, deceased, who appears to have purchased the right to said bounty lands of the said Briggs and Curtis: *Provided*, That before saidProviso. warrants shall be delivered to said Mrs.
Telfair, she shall execute her own bond to the United States, with good and sufficient security, in such sum as the Secretary of War shall require, to indemnify the said United States against the claim of any other person or persons to said lands. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryScrip to be paid to her. shall cause to be paid to said Mrs. Telfair any moneys which may be due to Scipio Brown, a private in the Rhode Island line of the revolutionary army, upon the certificate issued to him for his revolutionary services, which certificate is alleged to have been purchased by, and assigned to said Israel Pearce, the father of said Mrs.
Telfair: *Provided*,Proviso. That before such payment shall be made, the said Mrs. Telfair shall execute her bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by said Secretary of the Treasury in double the amount of the sum to be so paid to her, to indemnify the United States against the claim of said Scipio Brown, his executors, administrators or assigns, to the money due on said certificate. Approved, June 17, 1844.