Volume 21
Private Law 46–36
for the relief of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, Paris, Texas.
Approved June 24, 1879
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, Paris, Texas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed
Duplicate draft.
to cause the pension-agent at Knoxville, Tennessee, to issue and deliver to the Fanners and Merchants’ Bank of Paris, Texas, a duplicate draft of number one hundred and ten thousand three hundred and nine, dated March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, drawn by Daniel T. Boynton, as United States pension-agent at Knoxville, Tennessee, on the United States assistant treasurer at New York, for the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents, in favor of Minerva A. Davis, and by her indorsed to said bank; which duplicate draft is directed to be issued in lieu of the original draft as herein described, and which was mailed by said bank on the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, from Paris, Texas, to Donnell,
Provisos.
Lawson and Company, of New York, and which was lost in transmission: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is satisfied that the same has not been paid: And provided further, That said Farmersand Merchants’ Bank give bond, with security approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, to hold the United States harmless against the payment of said original draft.
Approved, June 24, 1879.