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 902 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sltss. II. Ch. 42, 60, 61. 1862. the third day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, with the coupons from said first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four attached, and were never received in New York, and are therefore supposed to be lost or destroyed: Provided, That before the issue of such new certificates said Philip Speyer & Co. shall furnish to the acceptance of ·the First Comptroller of the Treasury such bond or bonds of indemnity as is usually required by the regulations of the Treasury Department for the issue of duplicate certificates of inscribed stock. Approved, February 13, 1862. March 14, 1862. Can. XLH.-An Act for the Relic/‘Lo/` ZPB. Caverly, late Secretary q/' Lqation at it IMG, GV. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P¤.Y1¤¤¤¤ #0 Z· States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid, out of any B' c"°'l" · money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nineteen hundred and eighty-eight dollars to the said Z. B. Caverly, late secretary of legation at Lima, Peru, for his services and expenses as special messenger from Lima to Washington in eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty, and eighteen hundred and sixty-one, that being the amount of the per diem and expenses of said messenger, after deducting therefrom his salary for the time of such service as secretary of legation. Approved, March 14, 1862. April 25, 1862. Cnr. LX. —-An Ac: to authorize the District Court ¢y"tIze United States for the Northern "·*···*······— District of Caltfzmia to hear and deterntine_upon its Merit: the Claim of Pedro Chaboya to a certain Tract of Land an Calybrma, called La Posa San Juan Bautista. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United Claim ofhdro States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court of the Eg;g°{'); gillgm United States for the northern district of California be, and is hereby, Court. authorized and required to hear and decide upon the merits the claim of Pedro Chaboya to a tract of land described in his amended petition, tiled in said court on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nfty-seven, and called “La Posa de San Juan Bautista," in the same manner and with the same jurisdiction as if the claim to the said tract of land had been duly presented to the Board of Land Commissioners under the provisions of the act entitled “An act to ascertain and settle the pri- 1851, eh. 41. vate land claims in the State of California," approved March third, anno Vol.ix.p.631. Domini eighteen hundred and fifty~one, and an appeal had been duly taken from their decision to the said district court by the said Chaboya. Testimony be- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the said hearing the testiammxm mi? mony heretofore taken in said court in relation to the said claim on behalf of the said claimant, or of the United States, may be read subject to all just exceptions to its competency, and additional testimony on either part may be taken under the direction and order of said district court as to the validity of said claim or the extent thereof Appeal to Su- Sec. 3. And be it jim/ter enacted That an appeal may be taken from lg:'?ui&:,°'* °f the final decision and decree of said district court to the Supreme Court sims_ of the United States by either party in accordance with the provisions of v01, ix. p, 633, gl? tenth section of the said act of March third, eighteen hundred and y-one. Approved, April 25, 1862. April 25, 1862. Cali-. LXI.-—An Act or the Relic o the Owners, O, and o t ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Damages to be States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid, out of any