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The Secretary of the Treasury of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered to issue interim certificates in representation of Savings Bonds which shall be delivered to the buyers of said bonds. Said certificates shall be issued pending the final version of the bonds in the amount corresponding to the denominations of each one of the bonds to be acquired or in total amounts, as requested by the buyers thereof. The bonds finally issued shall bear the effective date of the original issuance of each certificate, as well as the rate of interest and other authorized conditions as may have been established in said certificates. History —May 28, 1976, No. 69, p. 190, § 11.