Volume 3
Public Law 15–XIII
to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed.
Approved February 4, 1819
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That whenever proof shall
On proof, &c. of the loss of a treasury note, the Secretary, upon bond, &c. to pay the amount due.
be exhibited to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss or destruction of any treasury note, issued under the authority of any act of Congress, it shall be lawful for the said secretary, upon receiving bond, with sufficient security to indemnify the United States against any other claim on account of the treasury note alleged to be so lost or destroyed, to pay the amount due on such note, to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it has been destroyed.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That, whenever proof shall be exhibited,
On proof of the loss or destruction of any certificate of Mississippi stock, a new certificate may be issued.
to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss or destruction of any certificate of Mississippi stock, it shall be lawful to issue to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it was destroyed, a new certificate of the same value with the one lost or destroyed; the person claiming such renewal complying with the rules and regulations at present established at the Treasury Department, for the renewal of certificates of stock lost or destroyed.
Approved, .