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Finance. ) 1891. Office of Indian Affair?, Washington, D. C., April 1891. In accordance with special order of the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, of May 3,1889, and in “order that the Department may be fully secured, it is hereafter required that where a party or parties become surety or sureties to more than one bond, evidence must be filed to satisfy the Department that the said party or parties are possessed of property not exempt from execution, over and above all debts and liabilities, and free from all incumbrances, of value not less than the sum of several bonds for which they are sureties.” To secure immediate favorable action upon contracts, all successful bidders, in the execution of bonds for their contracts, should request information from the parties whom they intend to offer as sureties on their bonds, whether such sureties have qualified as such upon any other bonds of existing contracts with the Indian Bureau, and if they have, such sureties must set out in the affidavits to accompany the bond of the contract to be executed that they are worth in unencumbered property not exempt from execution, after payment of all their just debts and liabilities a sum equal to the aggregate amount of all the sums for which they have so become sureties upon existing contracts with the Indian Bureau. re. V. belt, Acting Commissioner. 4352 b—1 m
