The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-15
I'd, August 10, 1916.
[PUBLIC-No. ISL

AN ACT TO provide for the payment Of the evil
deEces of public debt in certain cases.
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tires Of The United States of America in Congress as
seubltd, That whenever II shall appear the salts
faction of the Secretary of the Treasury upon due
proof taken in the manner hereinafter directed that
any treasury note which has been, before the pas
sage of this act, received or redeemed by any au.
thorZed officer of the government has been subse-
quenty purloned or stolen and put into circulation
without having upon it any evidence marks of
having been cancelled, and has been received by
any person or institution, for full con-
sideration, in the usual course of business
without notice knowledge of the same
having been redeemed or received as aforesaid, or
having been cancelled, or having been purlolned or
stolen aforesaid and without any circumstances
existing to create suspicion of the good faith due
caution with which the same may have been re-
ceved by such person or institution, he shall be,
and hereby is, authorized to the amount of
such note TO be paid to the innocent holder thereof
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise APP
proprated Provided, That the facts upon which
any such payment shall be made shall be proved by
the oath affirmation of credible witness or wit
nesses taken before any judge of the United States
or of the highest court of record, of the presiding
Judge of any court exercising unlimited jurisdiction
in amount, of any State, Territory, district and
Of the taking Of which testimony due notice shall
previously be given to the district attorney of the
United States for the district in which such teati-
mony is TAKEN who shall be at liberty to appear and
PROFOUND questions to such witnesses; all which ev-
idence shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury, and preserved in his department; and all
wlIful false swearing, upon such examination, shall
be- and hereby is declared to be, perjury and liable
to the punishment for that offence prescribed by
the laws Of the United States: And provided further
That statement of all treasury notes paid under
the provisions of this act within the preceding year
shall be submitted to Congress with the annual re.
port of the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to
the finances.
SEC. 2. find be IL further enacted That when any
officer or agent of the United States duly authorized
to receive, redeem cancel any treasury notes is
sued by authority of law, has received or shall re-
ceive, or has paid, or shall pay any treasury note
which had been previously received or redeemed by
any officer or agent having authority to receive or
redeem such note, and which had subsequently
thereto been purloined and put into circulation the
sen tary of the Treasury upon full and satisfactory
proof that the same had been received or paid in
good faith, and in the exercise of ordinary prudence
may allow a credit for the amount of such note to
the officer or agent receiving paying the same;
and all credits which have, before the passage Of
this act, been allowed in such cases. and under such
circumstances, are hereby sanctioned.
SEC. 3 find be II further enacted, That all acts
and parts OF acts heretofore enacted which are sup
Piled by this act, so far the same may not have
been acted on are hereby repealed, and so far as
they may have been acted on, they are ratified and
confirmed.
APPROVED, August 10, 1876.