Volume 60
Private Law 79–939
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a duplicate of Porterfield scrip certificate numbered 53 to the Muskegon Trust Company, Muskegon, Michigan, as trustee of the John Torrent trust.
Approved August 9, 1946
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a duplicate of Porterfield scrip certificate numbered 53 to the Muskegon Trust Company, Muskegon, Michigan, as trustee of the John Torrent trust.
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 is authorized to issue to the Muskegon Trust Company, Muskegon, Michigan, as trustee of the John Torrent trust, a duplicate of Porterfield scrip certificate numbered 53, originally issued for forty acres of public land pursuant to the Act of Congress approved April 11, 1860, located to the extent of four and twenty-five one-hundredths acres by John Torrent on December 28, 1895, and returned to John Torrent certified as to its unused portion of thirty-five and seventy-five one-hundredths acres on August 21, 1903, upon satisfactory proof of ownership and loss of same, and the execution of a bond, with good and sufficient securities, in double the market value of the certificate so to be issued, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, conditioned to indemnify the United States against the presentation by an innocent holder of the alleged lost certificate. Such duplicate shall have all the legal force and effect of the original.
Approved August 9, 1946.