Whenever any outstanding bond or warrant of this state or any county, city, town, village, or levee board shall become so far mutilated as to be unfit for circulation, or shall be lost or destroyed, a duplicate thereof may be issued by the officer authorized by law to issue such bonds or warrants, under the regulations and restrictions prescribed in the next section.Codes, 1892, § 2799; 1906, § 3179; Hemingway's 1917, § 2520; 1930, § 2340; 1942, § 770.
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