Private Law 16–XCVI

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to

To be paid the amount of two final settlement certificates, which were lost, &c.

pay to Samuel B. Beall, the amount of two final settlement certificates, issued to the said Samuel B. Beall on the first of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for his services as a lieutenant in the army of the United States, during the revolutionary war, and numbered eighty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty-six, and eighty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty-seven, together with interest on the said certificates, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the times they bore interest, respectively; which said certificates were lost by the said Samuel B. Beall, and remain yet outstanding and unpaid: Provided, That, before payment is made as aforesaid, the said Samuel

Proviso.

B. Beall shall give bond to the United States, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, to refund the money, should the said certificates hereafter be presented for payment.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the sums to be paid, in pursuance

Appropriation.

of the first section of this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.