Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-05-03

! COMMONWEALTH oF fENNSf L' AVA
Certificate of Registered Claim for Var Dam
ages.
This is to certify that............has on file
in the office of the auditor general duly
approved and registered claim for the sum
Of -. - dollars, payable ro.......... or 9ear-
or, as provided by the act entitled an act
to authorize the liquidation of damages
sustained by citizens of Pennsylvania
during he late rebellion, approvcd......
A. ID. 1871, and six per itum interest,
payable to .he bearer of this certificate
semi-annualIy on the lst days of July and
January of each year at the treasury OF
the State as provided by the aforesaid act
Of the general assembly of Pennsylvania.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set
our hands and the seal of the State this
day of ......... A. u. 1871.
Which certificates shall be signed by
The Governor and State treasurer, and
be countersigned and registered by the
auditor general, and be exempt from all
taxes except those imposed by the
United States.
SEC. 3. 1t shall he the duty of the
State treasurer, upon the passage OF this
act. to appropriate the sum of one hun
dred and seventy thousand dollars, out
of any money i'll the treasury not other
wise appropriated, and said treasurer
shall annually hereafter, until the GER
tifcates aforesaid shall be paid by the
United States, appropriate like sum,
or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, to pay tie interest on the certifi-
Gates hrreinbetore authorized, and the
necessary expenses thereof, to special
fund to be designated as the Fund
for the Liquidation of War Damages.
and out OF said fund the treasurer shall
pay the interest ON said certificates
from the first day of January, A. ID.
1871. semially Oh the first days of July
and January of each year, at the rate
of six per centum per anuum, to tne
holders of said certificates, and receive
receipts therefor and file the same in
his office.
SEC. 4. The State of Pennsy lvania
shall, upon the acceptance of the Ger
tihcates by the claimants becc me the
owner of said claims, and it shall be
the duty of the Governor of the State
to demand the payment of the same
by the general government for the use
and benefit of .he State, and also the
payment of five hundred tn housand dol-
lars, with the accrued interest thereon,
paid by the State on said claims under
the act approved 18th February, A. D.
1866, and the interest paid on said cer-
tiicatcs, and to select such agents for
the purpose as may be deemed neces-
sary, and upon the pawn ent of any
portion or all of SAID claims by the
general government the money so re-
ceived shall be appropriated by the
Governor to the g Fund for the Liqui-
dation of War Damages" and be ap-
piled first to the payment of the ont
standing certificates, and next to the
claim of the State for the money ad-
vanced on said claims. If the State
shall receive from the general govern
ment, at any time, on account OF said
claims, an amount sufficient to redeem
all of said certificates, the State trea-
surer shall advent for twenty days
for proposals FOR the redemption of the
amount of certificates Of the g fund for
the liquidation of war damages can
redeem, and accept the lowest propo-
sails for the same, but none should be
redeemed above par, and if the State
shall receive at any time from the gen.
eral government sufficient amount to
redeem all of said certificates at par,
the State treasurer shall give thirty
days notice of his purpose t. redeem
them, and at the expiration of thirty
days interest on all of said certificates
shall cease: Prorided. That the ag-
gregate amount of said certificates to
lie issued for said claims shall not ex-
ceed the sum of two millions eight
hundred thousand dollars.