Chap. 28.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section Twenty-eight, Chapter
Forty-four, of the Code of 1860.

Approved March 29, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twenty-eight, chapter forty-four, of the Code of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, be amended and’ re-enacted so as to read as
follows: .

Ҥ 28. When any certificate shall be lost by the holder
thereof, he may produce to the auditor, in whose office the
said certificate is registered, proof of his having advertised
the same once a week for four successive weeks in a news-

aper; file in the office of the said auditor an affidavit setting

orth the time, place, and circumstance of the loss, and execute
a bond to the commonwealth, with one or more secureties, ap-
proved by the said auditor, conditioned to indemnify all
persons against any loss in consequence of issuing a new cer-
tificate in place of the one so lost; and thereupon the said
auditor may issue a new. certificate and register the same.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.