If any obligation of the state, which shall include bonds, notes, coupons or other evidence of state indebtedness, becomes mutilated, defaced, destroyed, stolen or lost, the State Treasurer may cause to be executed and delivered to the owner or his authorized attorney or agent a new obligation of like tenor, amount, date, interest rate and maturity as the obligation so mutilated, defaced, destroyed, stolen or lost, in exchange and substitution for such mutilated or defaced obligation, or in lieu of and substitution for the obligation destroyed, stolen or lost upon the filing with said Treasurer of proof of ownership, and proof of theft or destruction or loss satisfactory to said Treasurer, and upon the furnishing said Treasurer with indemnity or surety satisfactory to him and compliance with such other reasonable regulations as said Treasurer may prescribe and payment of such expenses as the state and the Treasurer may incur in connection therewith. The Treasurer shall cancel all obligations surrendered in accordance with section 3-23. The new obligations shall be signed in the name of the state by such officials as are in office at the time of the issuance or the authorization thereof, and new coupons, if any, shall be authenticated by the signature or facsimile signature of the Treasurer or by such former Treasurer as the Treasurer may designate. Such obligations may be issued notwithstanding that any of the officials signing them or whose facsimile signatures appear on the obligations or coupons has ceased to hold office at the time of such issue or at the time of delivery of such obligations. The Treasurer shall report the number and amount of all obligations so issued in his annual report.