Chapter LIII. for the relief of Archibald Watt
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Chap. LIII.— An Act for the relief of Archibald Watt.Feb. 27, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the proper officers of the Treasury do pay to Archibald Watt, the specie value of three treasury certificates, for Specie value of certain certificates, with interest, to be paid. six hundred dollars each, issued to Andrew Bass, on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, payable to the said Bass, or bearer, and whereof the said Watt is holder; with such interest on the said specie value, as would have become due thereon had the same been subscribed to the loan created for funding the debts of the United States, by the acts of one thousand seven hundred Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.
Proviso. and ninety; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* He shall give a bond, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in an amount to be determined by said Secretary, conditioned that the said Archibald and his securities will refund the amount of money received under the provisions of this act, if any other person shall prove a legal title to the amount contained in said certificates, together with the interest on the sum so received.
Approved, February 27, 1833.