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[CITE: 40USC725]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                CHAPTER 15--GOVERNMENT LOSSES IN SHIPMENT
 
Sec. 725. Agreements of indemnity

    The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to execute and 
deliver, on behalf of the United States, such binding agreements of 
indemnity as he may deem necessary and proper to enable the United 
States to obtain the replacement of any instrument or document received 
by the United States or any agent of the United States in his official 
capacity which, after having been so received, became lost, destroyed, 
or so mutilated as to impair its value: Provided, however, That no such 
agreement of indemnity shall operate to obligate the United States in 
any case in which the obligee named therein makes any payment or 
delivery not required by law on the original of the instrument or 
document covered thereby. The fund shall be available for the payment of 
any obligation arising out of any agreement executed by the Secretary of 
the Treasury under this section.

(July 8, 1937, ch. 444, Sec. 3b, as added Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 665, 
Sec. 2, 53 Stat. 1359.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 134b-2 of Title 5 prior 
to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 
Stat. 378.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 729 of this title.
