Chapter CXXVI. for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Joseph Falconer, deceased
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Chap. CXXVI.— An Act for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Joseph Falconer, deceased. May 28, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryClaim for loan office certificates, alleged to have been lost, to be settled. department be authorized to audit and settle the claim of Joseph Falconer, an officer of the revolution, formerly of Philadelphia, deceased, on account of two several loan-office certificates, issued April twenty-first, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to and in the name of John Cox; namely, one for the sum of one thousand dollars, and numbered thirty-five, and one for the sum of six hundred dollars, and numbered two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven; and to ascertain the true specie value of the same, exclusive of interest: 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 as aforesaid, be paid to the heirs or legal representatives of the said Joseph Falconer, or either of them, duly authorized and empowered to receive the same, out of any money in the treasury, not Proviso.otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That the person or persons receiving the amount aforesaid, 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 sufficient security, as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve.
Approved, May 28, 1830.