Chapter CXVII. for the relief of Benjamin Jacobs, of Samuel Bayard, surviving executor of John Bayard, deceased, and of the executors of Joseph Falconer, deceased
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Chap. CXVII.— An Act for the relief of Benjamin Jacobs, of Samuel Bayard, surviving executor of John Bayard, deceased, and of the executors of Joseph Falconer, deceased.June 29, 1834. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle Account of B. Jacobs for loan office certificates to be settled. the account of Benjamin Jacobs for two loan office certificates, amounting to seven hundred dollars, issued from the loan office in Connecticut, in the name of the said Benjamin Jacobs, viz. number nine thousand five hundred and forty-one, dated twenty-first May, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for two hundred dollars, and number six thousand one hundred and twenty-nine, dated April twenty-sixth, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for five hundred dollars, and to ascertain the true specie value thereof; which certificates are alleged to have been lost, and appear by the books of the treasury to be outstanding and unpaid; and that the amount so ascertained, with interest thereon, be paid to the said Benjamin Jacobs, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the said Benjamin Jacobs executing and delivering to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with sufficient security, to be approved by the said Comptroller.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the proper accounting Claim of S. Bayard for loan office certificates to be settled. officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim of Samuel Bayard, surviving executor of John Bayard, deceased, for six certificates, issued on the twenty-second of February, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, in the name of the said John Bayard, viz., number one hundred and fifty-one, one hundred and fifty-two, one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and fifty-eight, for three hundred dollars each, amounting to one thousand eight hundred dollars, and to ascertain the true specie value thereof; which certificates are alleged to have been lost, and appear by the books of the treasury to be still unsatisfied; and that the amount so ascertained with interest thereon from the first day of January seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, be paid to the said Samuel Bayard, surviving executor as aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the execution and delivery of a bond of indemnity, from the said Samuel Bayard to the Comptroller of the Treasury, in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with sufficient security, to be approved of by the said Comptroller.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That there be paid to the executors Interest upon loan office certificates to be paid to executors of Joseph Falconer. of Joseph Falconer, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, interest upon two loan office certificates, number thirty-five, for one thousand dollars, of the value of four hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-seven ninetieths, in specie, and number two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven, for six hundred dollars, of the value of two hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-eight ninetieths, in specie, to be computed from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, until the payment of the principal of those certificates, as directed by the act for the relief of the Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 126. legal representatives of Joseph Falconer, approved twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty.
Approved, June 29, 1834.