United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/3rd Session/Resolution 4
No. 4. A Resolution authorizing certain certificates of deposite to be cancelled and reissued.
Preamble.Whereas sundry persons have deposited sums of money in the Treasury of the United States, under the provisions of the second section of the act making further provision for the sale of the public lands, approved twenty-fourth of April,1820, ch. 51. eighteen hundred and twenty, and received certificates therefor, and, supposing the same to be assignable, have assigned the same, for a valuable consideration, to other persons; and whereas the said section is so construed by the Treasury Department, that such receipts or certificates are not available to the assignees; be it, therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States be,Certificates, on presentation, to be cancelled, and new ones issued. and he is hereby, authorized and required, on the presentation of any such certificate by an assignee or bona fide holder thereof, to allow said assignee or holder to surrender the same to be cancelled, and to issue a new certificate in the name of said assignee or holder, in lieu of the one so surrendered; which new certificate shall be received in payment for public lands, in the same manner as the original would have been had it not been transferred by the person who made the deposite; but the certificates to be issued under this resolution shall not be assignable.
Approved, February 28, 1839.