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Volume 27

Public Law 52–91

to enable the Centennial Board of Finance, incorporated by an act approved June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to close its affairs, and dissolving said corporation.

Approved June 6, 1892

Statutory text

An Act

to enable the Centennial Board of Finance, incorporated by an act approved June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to close its affairs, and dissolving said corporation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That for the purpose of closing the affairs of the Centennial Board of Finance, incorporated by an act approved June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the judge of the United States district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania is hereby appointed, authorized, and directed to audit, allow, and finally

Proceedings to close up affairs.

pass and approve the accounts of said corporation, and certify to the President of the United States the amount, if any, of unclaimed money in the hands of the treasurer of said corporation, which money, so unclaimed, shall be paid forthwith to the Pennsylvania Museum and

Disposal of funds unclaimed.

School of Industrial Art, a corporation existing under the authority of the State of Pennsylvania, and located in Philadelphia, in said State: Provided, That before making payment of such unclaimed money to the

Proviso.

Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, said last-named

Bond.

corporation shall execute its bond to the Secretary of the Interior in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned to pay over to any stockholder of the Centennial Board of Finance, aforesaid, having a legal right to any of said unclaimed money, his or her legal share thereof.

Sec. 2.

That whenever said judge shall report to the President of

Final discharge of officers, etc.

the United States that he has examined, audited, and allowed the accounts of the Centennial Board of Finance, and said unclaimed money has been paid over to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, said corporation, the Centennial Board of Finance, shall be, and is hereby, dissolved; and all the officers and directors thereof shall be thereafter discharged and released from all duties and responsibilities of said corporation.

And the report of said judge shall be transmitted by the President

Report of judge.

of the United States to the Department of the Interior to be filed and preserved in said department.

Approved, June 6, 1892.

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