Chap. 112.—An ACT to authorize the issue of Registered Certificates of
State Stock to Franklin Torrey for principal and interest, in lieu of two
lost bonds.

Passed January 26, 1867. °

Whereas, it has been satisfactorily shown to the general
assembly of Virginia, that two certificates @ debt: of the
state of Virginia. the property of Franklin Torrey, a citizen
of the United States, resident at Leghorn.in Italy, (one of
which certificates numbered nine hundred and seventeen was
for the sum of five hundred dollars, and the other numbered
five thousand nine hundred and ninety-oné was for the sum
of one thousand dollars), were lost by the burning of the
steamer Austria on the high seas, about the thirteenth of
September, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-eight;
and the said Franklin Torrey having advertised the loss and
given notice thereof to the proper authorities of the state:
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1. ‘Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the auditor
of public accounts be and he is hereby directed to issue two
registered certificates of state stock for the sum of five hun-
dred dollars and one thousand dollars respectively, in lieu of
the certiticates thus lost, conformably to‘the laws in relation
‘to the issue of registered certificates of state stock; and
that the auditor of public accounts also issue to the said
Franklin Torrey certificates of the state stock for the inte-
rest due upon the said lost certificates, according to the pro-
visions of the act entitled an act to provide for funding the
interest upon the public debt, passed March second, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six: provided, however, that before the
same shall be issued, the said Franklin Torrey shall file in the
office of the auditor of public accounts, a bond payable to
the commonwealth of Virginia, in the penalty of five thou-
sand dollars, with one or more sufficient sureties, to be ap-
proved by the governor of the commonwealth of Virginia,
conditioned to indemnify the commonwealth and all persons
against loss in consequence of the issuing of said certificates,
or cither of them, in place of the said lost certificates, or for
the interest due thereon.
2. ‘This act shall be in force from its passage.