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That section forty-seven and forty-five, title fifty-seven of the Revised Statuses of the United States is
hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 4745. — Any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension
which has been, or may hereafter be, granted, shall be void and of no effect, and any person who shall pledge or
receive as a pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension or pension
certificate which has been, or may hereafter be granted or issued, or who shall hold the same as collateral security
for any debt, or promise, or upon any pretext of such security, or promise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution; and any
person who shall retain the certificate of a pensioner and refuse to surrender the same upon the demand of the Commissioner
of Pensions, or a United States pension agent, or any other person, authorized by the Commissioner of Pensions,
or the pensioner, to receive the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution.

Approved February 28, 1883.

561

No. 78.465
Pension Certificate of
Osborn Ayer

Payable Quarterly
by the
U.S. Pension Agent
at Des Moines
Iowa

Anderson
Clerk.
CERTIFICATE