Chapter CXXIII. for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Bird and Grove Pomeroy
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Chap. CXXIII.— An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Bird and Grove Pomeroy.June 28, 1834. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle the Claim of Benj. Bird on account of loan office certificates to be settled. claim of the legal representatives of Benjamin Bird, on account of eight loan office certificates, issued at the loan office of the state of Massachusetts, in favor of Pierre Gourrego, and dated the first day of April, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight; two of which were from the sum of two hundred dollars each, and numbered five thousand six hundred and eighty-one and five thousand six hundred and eighty-two; three for the sum of four hundred dollars each, and numbered four thousand one hundred and twenty-eight, four thousand one hundred and twenty-nine, and four thousand one hundred and thirty; and three for the sum of six hundred dollars each, and numbered four thousand and fourteen, four thousand and fifteen, and four thousand and sixteen; which certificates appear on the books of the treasury outstanding and unpaid.
And also to audit and settle the claim of the legal representatives of Also, claim of Grove Pomeroy for final settlement certificates. Grove Pomeroy, on account of four final settlement certificates, one numbered twelve thousand two hundred and thirty-two, for two dollars and thirty-nine cents; one numbered twelve thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, for seventy-five dollars and forty-nine cents; one numbered thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-three, for eighty dollars; and one numbered thirteen thousand six hundred and ten, for eighty dollars, all dated the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-four; the three first bearing interest from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and the latter from the fourth day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and appearing outstanding and unpaid on the books of the treasury; and the sum found due, together with the interest thereon, at six per cent. per annum, be paid to the said representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That the legal representatives of the Proviso. said Bird and of said Pomeroy, respectively, shall first deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond in such sum and with such surety as he shall approve, to indemnify the United States against all lawful claims for or on account of said certificates.
Approved, June 28, 1834.