Third. The residue thereof to be paid into the Treasury of the United States. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person or Forging, &c. persons shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering, any note, bond, coupon, or other security issued under the authority of this act, or heretofore issued under acts to authorize the issue of Treasury notes or bonds; or shall pass, utter, publish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States from any foreign place with intent to pass, Post, p. 60, s. 8. utter, publish, or sell, or shall have or keep in possession or conceal, with intent to utter, publish, or sell, any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered note, bond, coupon, or other security, with intent to defraud any body corporate or politic, or any other person or persons whatsoever, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by How punished. fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor not exceeding fifteen post, p. 135. years, according to the aggravation of the offense. R. S., 5414, 5415, Persons having custody of plates and using same unlawfully. p. 135. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any person, having the custody of any plate or plates from which any notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities mentioned in this act, or any part thereof, shall have been printed, or which R. S., 5430, post, shall have been prepared for the purpose of printing any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part thereof, shall use such plate or plates, or knowingly permit the same to be used for the purpose of printing any notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part thereof, except such as shall be printed for the use of the United States by or.er of the proper officer thereof; or if any person shall engrave, or cause or procure to be en- Engraving similar plates for graved, or shall aid in engraving, any plate or plates in fraudulent pur. the likeness or similitude of ary plate or plates designed for the printing of any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part thereof, or shall vend or sell any such plate or plates, or shall bring into the United States from any foreign place any such plate or plates, Post, p. 60, s. Ɛ. with any other intent, or for any purpose, in either case, than that such plate or plates shall be used for printing of such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or some part or parts thereof, for the use of the United States, or shall have in his custody or possession any metallic plate engraved after the similitude of any plate from which any poses. such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part or parts thereof, shall have been printed, with intent to use such plate or plates, or cause or suffer the same to be used, in forging or counterfeiting any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part or parts thereof, issued as aforesaid, or shall have in his custody or posses sion any blank note or notes, bond or bonds, coupon or coupons, or other security or securities, engraved and printed after the similitude of any notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, issued as aforesaid, with intent to sell Fraudulent or otherwise use the same; or if any person shall print, printing, photo. graphing, &c. photograph, or in any other manner execute or cause to be printed, photographed, or in any manner executed, or shall aid in printing, photographing, or executing any engraving, photograph, or other print, or impression, in the likeness or similitude of any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part or parts thereof, except for the use of the United States and by order of the proper officer thereof, or shall vend or sell any such engraving, photograph, print, or other impression, except to the United States, or shall bring into the United States from any foreign place any such engraving, photograph, print, or other impression for the purpose of vending or selling the same, except by the direction of some proper officer of the United States, or shall have in his custody or possession any paper adapted to the making of such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, and similar to the paper upon which any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities shall have been issued, with intent to use such paper, or cause or suffer the same to be used, in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, issued as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall, on convicHow punished. tion thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thou sand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor not exceeding fifteen years, according to the aggravation of the offense. Approved February 25, 1862 March 1, 1862. Post, p. 49. CHAP. XXXV.-AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Issue of certifi- of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That ness authorized. the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby author cate of indebted Not less than $1,000. ized to cause to be issued to any public creditor who may be desirous to receive the same, upon requisition of the head of the proper department, in satisfaction of audited and settled demands against the United States, certificates for the whole amount due or parts thereof not less than one thousand dollars, sigued by the Treasurer of the United States, and countersigned as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury; which certificates shall be payable When payable. in one year from date or earlier, at the option of the government, and shall bear interest at the rate of six per centum Six per cent. inper annum. Approved March 1, 1862. How signed. terest. CHAP. XLV.-AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF COIN AND March 17, 1862. Purchase of coin with any bonds or notes R. S., 3700, post, p. 132. indebtedness may ers of checks, &c. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury may purchase coin with any United States of the bonds or notes of the United States, authorized by authorized. law, at such rates and upon such terms as he may deem most advantageous to the public interest; and may issue, Certificates of under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, cer- be issued to holdtificates of indebtedness, such as are authorized by an act entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treas- Ante, p. 48. ury to issue certificates of indebtedness to public creditors," approved March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to such creditors as may desire to receive the same, in discharge of checks drawn by disbursing-officers upon sums placed to their credit on the books of the Treasurer, upon requisitions of the proper departments, as well as in discharge of audited and settled accounts, as provided by said act. Demand notes made receivable as notes issued ruary 25, 1862. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the demand notes authorized by the act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and a legal tender and sixty-one, and by the act of February twelfth, eighteen under act of Febhundred and sixty-two, shall, in addition to being receivable in payment of duties on imports, be receivable, and Ante, p. 44. R. S., 3589, post, shall be lawful money and a legal tender, in like manner, p. 130. and for the same purposes, and to the same extent, as the notes authorized by an act entitled "An act to authorize Ante, p. 44. the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. the Treasury au to amount of $50,000,000. Secretary of SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the limitation thorized to re- upon temporary deposits of United States notes with any ceive deposits of Treasury notes assistant treasurers or designated depositaries, authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive such deposits, at five per cent. interest, to twenty-five millions of dollars, shall be so far modified as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to receive such deposits to an amount not exceeding fifty millions of dollars, and that the rates of interest shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury not exceeding the annual rate of five per centum. p. 129. May issue new SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases where notes in place of those worn out. the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized by law to R. S., 3580, post, reissue notes, he may replace such as are so mutilated or otherwise injured as to be unfit for use with others of the same character and amount; and such mutilated notes, and all others which by law are required to be taken up and not reissued, shall, when so replaced, or taken up, be destroyed in such manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Approved March 17, 1862. July 11, 1862. Vol. XII, p.532. p. 128. be of denomina CHAP. CXLII.-AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AN ADDITIONAL ISSUE OF Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Authority to of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Treasury notes. the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue, in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized, on the credit of the United tates, one hundred and fifty millions R. S. 3571, post, of dollars of United States notes, not bearing interest, payable to bearer at the Treasury of the United States, and of such denominations as he may deem expedient: $35,000,000 may Provided, That no note shall be issued for the fractional tions from $1 to part of a dollar, and not more than thirty-five millions shall $5. be of lower denominations than five dollars; and such notes Receivable for shall be receivable in payment of all loans made to the duties on imports United States, and of all taxes, internal duties, excises, bonds, &c., and debts, and demands of every kind due to the United States, 6 per cent. bonds. except duties on imports and interest, and of all claims and demands against the United States, except for interest upon bonds, notes, and certificates of debt or deposit; and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest, as aforesaid. And any holder of said United States notes depositing any sum not less than fifty dollars, or some multiple of fifty all dues except and interest on convertible into R. S., 3473, 3588, pp. 109, 130. coin. p. 129. dollars, with the Treasurer of the United States or either of the Assistant Treasurers, shall receive in exchange therefor duplicate certificates of deposit, one of which may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon issue to the holder an equal amount of bonds of the United States, coupon or registered, as may by said holder be desired, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after five years, and payable twenty years from the date thereof: Provided, however, That May be paid in any notes issued under this act may be paid in coin, instead of being received in exchange for certificates of deposit as R. S., 3579, post, above specified, at the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury may exchange for May exchange six per cent. for any such notes, on such terms as he shall think most beneficial bonds notes now outto the public interest, any bonds of the United States bear- standing and reing six per centum interest, and redeemable after five and may cancel any payable in twenty years, which have been or may be law. others in their fully issued under the provisions of any existing act; may reissue the notes so received in exchange; may receive and cancel any notes heretofore lawfully issued under any act of Congress, and in lieu thereof issue an equal amount in notes such as are authorized by this act; and may purchase, May purchase any outstanding at rates not exceeding that of the current market, and cost evidences of debt. of purchase not exceeding one-eighth of one per centum, any bonds or certificates of debt of the United States as he may deem advisable. issue notes, and notes and issue place. Notes may be engraved, print ury Department. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in case he ed, &c., in Treas shall think it inexpedient to procure said notes, or any R. S., 3577, post, part thereof, to be engraved and printed by contract, to p. 128. cause the said notes, or any part thereof, to be engraved, printed, and executed, in such form as he shall prescribe, at the Treasury Department in Washington, and under his direction; and he is hereby empowered to purchase and provide all the machinery and materials, and to employ such persons and appoint such officers as may be necessary for this purpose. posits of notes $50,000,000 to SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the limitation Limit to upon temporary deposits of United States notes with any extended from Assistant Treasurer, or designated depositary authorized $100,000,000. by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive such deposits, to fifty millions of dollars be, and is hereby repealed; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to receive such deposits, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to |