There should always be a willingness to save the holders of Government securities from damage through their loss or destruction, but, in my judgment, a bad precedent would be established by paying obligations whose destruction and identification are not more satisfactorily established than in this case.
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Her pensionable relation to the Government terminated with her remarriage.
I am constrained to withhold my approval of the bill under consideration.
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