The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-14
tGnsESA1 NArUnr-No. OH

lGBSEHkL RATURE-NOsSiIti .
AN ACT to provide for theissue of bonds in lieu
Of destroyed or deiaced bonds Of the United
Ssates.
4. IL enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
ReptatiueS Of the United States Of America in Con
gress assembled, That whenever 1t shall appear
10 the Secretary of the Treasury, by clear and
unequivocal proof, that any Understanding
bond of the United States has, without bad faithe
upon the part of the owner, been destroyed,
wholly or in part, or so deiaeed as TO impair us
value to the holder, and which bond shail be
identified by number and description, the Secre'
tary OF the Treasury shall, under such leRula,
tons and with such restrictions as TO tlfne anu
retention for security otherwise as he may
prescribe, issue duplicate of such bond, having
the time to run, bearing like interest as the
bond so proved to have been destroyed or defaced,
and so marked rs to show the original number
OF the bond destroyed and the dale thereof
| Provided That where such destroyed or detaced
| bonds shall appear to have been OF such class
or series as has been or may, before such appnca-
ton, be cal, ed in for redemption, instead OF Isl
suing duplicates thereof they shall be paid, with
such interest only as would have been paid II
presented in accordance with such CALI 5'i- - a.
| SEC 2. That the owner OF such destroyed or
defaced bond shall surrender the same, or 50
much thereofia as may remain, and shan ME
| in the treasury bond in q penal sum dou-
/ BILE the amount of said destroyed or defaced
bond, and the interest which would accrue
thereon until the principal thereof is due and
payable, with two good and sufficient sureties,
| residents of the United States, to be approyed
by the Secretary of the Treasury, with condition
to indemnity md save harmless the Unlteu
States from any claim upon the said destroyed or
defaced bond. a.HHf Cd"
Approved, June /, 1872.
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.lpu GENERAL NGTURE-No. 104
| AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled /" An
4 act donating public lands to The several States
and Territories which may provide colleges foI
q, the benefit of agricultural amt mechanlca
arts ~ passed July second, eighteen hundred
and siXty-two, and acts amendaUory thereto
'e Re IL fnocted baJ the Senate md House OF Reoys
ssntdtiuss of the United States Of 1merica IN Cent
qress 7usseabled, That tile lands granted 10 TIM
State of Oregon, for the establishment of AZ
N agricultural college, by act OF Congress of July
: second, eighteen hundred and slXty-t&o and act!
lamendatory thereto, may be selected by sale
II State from any lands within said State subjec
, to Homestead or pre- emption entry under tn,
laws of the United States; and in any cas-
where land is selected by the State, the price Q
which is fixed by law at the double minimum o
two dollars and fifty cents per acre, such lar,
| | shall be counted as double The quantity toWar
satisfying the grant. .,y,v 81, a..gsgrtysg, ~
SEC 2. That any snch selections already mad
by said State, and the lists duly filed in tn
proper district laud-ef1ice, be, and the same ar
: | hereby, confirmed, except SO far as they ma
conflict with any adverse legal right existing q
$50 the passage of this act: Piorided, hopeee'
: That the state shall not receive more than mini
W thousand acres, the quantity granted by tn
-. act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty
G two; Prorided also, That such lands shaall nc
i be sold by said State for less that Two dollar
and fifty cents per acre and where settlemei
| is made upon the same, preference in all cas-
) shah be given 10 actual settlers at the price Il
which said lands are offered
a Approved, June 4, 1872. e.stfahs