United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 13
Chap. XIII.—An Act to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed.
On proof, &c. of the loss of a treasury note, the Secretary, upon bond, &c. to pay the amount due.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever proof shall be exhibited to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss or destruction of any treasury note, issued under the authority of any act of Congress, it shall be lawful for the said secretary, upon receiving bond, with sufficient security to indemnify the United States against any other claim on account of the treasury note alleged to be so lost or destroyed, to pay the amount due on such note, to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it has been destroyed.
On proof of the loss or destruction of any certificate of Mississippi stock, a new certificate may be issued.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever proof shall be exhibited, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the loss or destruction of any certificate of Mississippi stock, it shall be lawful to issue to the person who had lost it, or in whose possession it was destroyed, a new certificate of the same value with the one lost or destroyed; the person claiming such renewal complying with the rules and regulations at present established at the Treasury Department, for the renewal of certificates of stock lost or destroyed.
Approved, February 4, 1819.