United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 115
Chap. CXV.—An Act to facilitate the transfer of the stock created under an act passed on the tenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and three.
Act of Nov. 10, 1803, ch. 2.
Stock transferable as other stock, from the books of the treasury to those of any commissioner, and from the books of one commissioner to those of another, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the stock created under the act, entitled “An act authorizing the creation of a stock to the amount of eleven millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of carrying into effect the convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America and the French Republic, and making provision for the payment of the same,” from and after the passing of this act shall be transferable in the same manner as the other stocks of the United States are or shall be transferable from the books of the treasury to the books of any commissioner, and from the books of one commissioner to those of another commissioner or to those of the treasury.
Approved, July 1, 1812.