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No. 25.- MARCH 3, 1855.

Stat. at Large, CHAP. CLXXV. - An Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic ExVol. X. p. 643. penses of Government, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and for other Purposes.

Mint.

Philadelphia.

Bullion for

form of refined

SEC. 1.

Mint of the United States.

At Philadelphia.

For transportation of bullion from New York assay office to the United coinage to be in States mint, for coinage, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That all bullion required by law to be transmitted from said office to the mint for coinage, shall, if practicable, be in the form of refined bars.

bars.

Assay office (N. Y.).

Salaries of clerks.

Assay Office, New York.

For salaries of officers and clerks, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to fix the salaries of such officers and clerks, so as not to exceed those allowed by law to like officers and clerks in the mint or its branches.

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Stat. at Large, CHAP. LVI. - An Act relating to Foreign Coins and to the Coinage of Cents at the Mint Vol. XI. p. 163. of the United States.

How much Spanish and Mexican coins

are to be received for by United States.

Said coins to be recoined.

Former acts

coins a currency

Be it enacted, &c. That the pieces commonly known as the quarter, eighth, and sixteenth of the Spanish pillar dollar, and of the Mexican dollar, shall be receivable at the treasury of the United States, and its several offices, and at the several post-offices and land-offices, at the rates of valuation following, - that is to say, the fourth of a dollar, or piece of two reals, at twenty cents; the eighth of a dollar, or piece of one real, at ten cents; and the sixteenth of a dollar, or half real, at five cents.

SEC. 2. That the said coins, when so received, shall not again be paid out, or put in circulation, but shall be recoined at the mint. And it shall be the duty of the director of the mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary and proper, to secure their transmission to the mint for recoinage, and the return or distribution of the proceeds thereof, when deemed expedient, and to prescribe such forms of account as may be appropriate and applicable to the circumstances: Provided, That the expenses incident to such transmission or distribution, and of recoinage, shall be charged against the account of silver profit and loss, and the net profits, if any, shall be paid from time to time into the treasury of the United States.

SEC. 3. That all former acts authorizing the currency of foreign gold making foreign or silver coins, and declaring the same a legal tender in payment for debts, or legal tender are hereby repealed; but it shall be the duty of the director of the mint to cause assays to be made, from time to time, of such foreign coins as be known to our commerce, to determine their average weight, fineness, and value, and to embrace in his annual report a statement of the results thereof.

repealed.
Assays of for-
eign coins to be
made, and an-
nually reported.
Weight and
composition of

cents.

Purchase of

may

SEC. 4. That from and after the passage of this act, coinage of the half cent shall cease.

*the

SEC. 5. That the treasurer of the mint, under the instruction of the bullion therefor. Secretary of the Treasury, shall, from time to time, purchase from the bullion fund of the mint the materials necessary for the coinage of such cent-piece, and transfer the same to the proper operative officers of the mint to be manufactured and returned in coin. And the laws in force reextended to such lating to the mint and the coinage of the precious metals, and in regard to the sale and distribution of the copper coins, shall, so far as applicable,

Former laws

cents.

be extended to the coinage herein provided for: Provided, That the net profits of said coinage, ascertained in like manner as is prescribed in the second section of this act, shall be transferred to the treasury of the United States.

Profits.

Such cents

may be paid out

SEC. 6. That it shall be lawful to pay out the said cent at the mint in exchange for any of the gold and silver coins of the United States, and and transmitted, also in exchange for the former copper coins issued: and it shall be lawful &c. to transmit parcels of the said cents, from time to time, to the assistant treasurers, depositaries, and other officers of the United States, under general regulations proposed by the director of the mint, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for exchange as aforesaid. And it shall also be lawful for the space of two years from the passage of this act and To be paid out no longer, to pay out at the mint the cents aforesaid for the fractional for certain coins parts of the dollar hereinbefore named, at their nominal value of twenty-two years. five, twelve-and-a-half and six-and-a-quarter cents, respectively.

at old rate for

mint to be made

SEC. 7. That hereafter the director of the mint shall make his annual Annual report report to the Secretary of the Treasury, up to the thirtieth of June in each of director of the year, so that the same may appear in his annual report to Congress on the up to June 30. finances.

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CHAP. XLIV.

An Act making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Ju- Stat. at Large, dicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hun- Vol. XII. p. 133. dred and sixty-two.

Provisions of act of 1853, ch.

Ante, p. 743.

SEC. 3. That the provisions of the fifth section of chapter ninety-seven of the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty- 97, § 5, extendthree, requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to limit the amount of re- ed. fining at the mint, whenever private establishments shall be capable of refining bullion, shall be extended to the several branches of the mint and to the United States assay office at New York, in all cases where deposits of bullion are made for coins or fine bars.

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CHAP. LIX.- An Act to establish a Branch Mint of the United States at Denver, in the Territory of Colorado.

Be it enacted, &c. That a branch of the mint of the United States be located and established at Denver, in the Territory of Colorado, for the coinage of gold.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 382.

Branch mint at Denver to coin gold.

Officers of

SEC. 2. That, for carrying on the business of said branch, the following officers shall be appointed as soon as the public interest shall require their mint. service, upon the nomination of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, namely: one superintendent, one assayer, one melter and refiner, and one coiner; and the said superintendent shall employ as many clerks, subordinate workmen, and laborers, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as may be required. The salaries of the Pay. said officers shall be as follows: To the superintendent, the sum of two thousand dollars; to the assayer, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars; to the melter and refiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the coiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the clerks, subordinate workmen, and laborers, such wages and allowances as are customary according to their respective stations and occupations.

of officers.

SEC. 3. That the officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, Oath and bond before entering upon the execution of their offices, shall take an oath or affirmation, before some judge of the United States or of the supreme court of said Territory, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties of their offices, and shall each become bound to the United States of Amer

&c.

Branch to be

ica, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint or the secretary of the Territory of Colorado and of the Secretary of the Treasury, with the condition of the faithful performance of the duties of their offices.

SEC. 4. That the general direction of the business of said branch of the under control of mint of the United States shall be under the control and regulation of the director of mint, director of the mint at Philadelphia, subject to the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury; and for that purpose it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations and require such returns prescribe regula- periodically and occasionally, and to establish such charges for parting, assaying, refining, and coining, as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing said branch; also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form, and finish in the coin stamped at said branch.

Director to tions, &c.

Branch mint

to be deposit for public moneys.

1846, ch. 90. Ante, p. 296.

Certificates of

ment for deposits for coinage.

SEC. 5. That said branch mint shall be a place of deposit for such public moneys as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. And the superintendent of said branch mint, who shall perform the duties of treasurer thereof, shall have the custody of the same, and also perform the duties of assistant treasurer; and for that purpose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an act entitled "An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue," approved August six, eighteen hundred and forty-six, which relates to the treasury of the branch mint at New Orleans.

SEC. 6. That the superintendent of said branch mint be authorized, deposit may be under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and on terms to be issued in payprescribed by him, to issue in payment of the gold dust and bullion deposited for assay and coinage or bars, drafts, or certificates of deposit, payable at the treasury or any sub-treasury of the United States, to any depositor electing to receive payment in that form.

Laws for regulation of mint, applicable to branch.

Appropriation.

SEC. 7. That all the laws and parts of laws now in force for the regulation of the mint of the United States, and for the government of the officers and persons employed therein, and for the punishment of all offences connected with the mint or coinage of the United States, shall be and they are hereby, declared to be in full force in relation to the branch of the mint by this act established, as far as the same may be applicable thereto.

SEC. 8. That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to meet the expenses of the current year and for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

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Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 744.

Public money

Ante, p. 296.

CHAP. LXXIX. - An Act making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the
Government for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for the
Year ending the 30[th] of June, 1863, and for other Purposes.

SEC. 11. That so much of the second section of the act of August in Philadelphia sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "An act to provide for the may be deposited in custom-house better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, building. transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue," as designates the mint 1846, ch. 90, 2. of the United States in in the city of Philadelphia to be the place of deposit of the public money at that point, is hereby amended so as to authorize the deposit of the same in the custom-house building of the said city, whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the public Appropriation. convenience will be subserved thereby; and the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, payable out of any moneys in the treasury

not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the construction of vaults and the fitting up of offices in the said custom-house building for the proper receipt, custody, and disbursement of such public money as may be deposited therein.

SEC. 12. That the treasurer of the mint of the United States, by virtue of that office assistant treasurer of the United States at Philadelphia, is authorized to designate from among the clerks in his said offices respectively, one to act as chief clerk to the treasurer of the mint, and one other to act as chief clerk to the assistant treasurer of the United States.

Treasurer of mint to desig

nate chief clerks.

Chief clerks

urer or assistant

SEC. 13. That, in case of the sickness or unavoidable absence of the treasurer of the mint, he may, in his discretion, authorize the respective may act as treaschief clerks to act in his place, and to discharge all the duties required treasurer. by law of the treasurer of the mint or assistant treasurer of the United States at Philadelphia.

SEC. 14. That the chief and other clerks in the treasury department of the mint shall give such assistance in the assistant treasury of the United States at Philadelphia, in the receipt, custody, and disbursement of the public money, as may be required of them by the treasurer, with the same responsibility for the faithful performance of such duty as is imposed upon them by the laws in force for the government of the mint and the officers and clerks thereof.

Duties of chief clerk and other

clerks.

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CHAP. XCVI. — An Act to establish a Branch Mint of the United States in the Territory of Nevada.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 770.

Branch mint established at

Be it enacted, &c. That a branch of the mint of the United States be located and established at Carson City, in the Territory of Nevada, for Carson City, the coinage of gold and silver.

Nevada.

President to of mint.

SEC. 2. That, for carrying on the business of said branch, the following officers shall be appointed, as soon as the public interest shall require appoint officers their service, upon the nomination of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, namely: one superintendent, one assayer, one melter and refiner, and one coiner; and the said superintendent Superintendent to appoint clerks. shall employ as many clerks, subordinate workmen, and laborers, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as may be required. The salaries of the said officers shall be as follows: To the superintendent, the sum of two thousand dollars; to the assayer, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars; to the melter and refiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the clerks, subordinate workmen, and laborers, such wages and allowances as are customary, according to their respective stations and occupations.

Salaries.

Officers and

clerks to take

SEC. 3. That the officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, before entering upon the execution of their offices, shall take an oath or oath. affirmation, before some judge of the United States or of the supreme court of said Territory, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties of their offices, and shall each become bound to the United States of Amer- Bond. ica, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint, or the secretary of the Territory of Nevada, and of the Secretary of the Treasury, with the condition of the faithful performance of the duties of their offices.

mint to direct

SEC. 4. That the general direction of the business of said branch of Director of the mint of the United States shall be under the control and regulation business of of the director of the mint at Philadelphia, subject to the approbation of branch. the Secretary of the Treasury; and for that purpose it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations and require such returns

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Stat. at Large, Vol. XIII. p. 54.

1857, ch. 56. Standard weight, &c. of the cent.

to be coined.

periodically and occasionally, and to establish such charges for parting, assaying, refining, and coining, as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing said branch; also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form, and finish in the coin stamped at said branch.

SEC. 5. That said branch mint shall be a place of deposit for such public moneys as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. And the superintendent of said branch mint, who shall perform the duties of treasurer thereof, shall have the custody of the same, and also perform the duties of assistant treasurer; and for that purpose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an act entitled "An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue," approved August six, eighteen hundred and forty-six, which relates to the treasury of the branch mint at New Orleans.

SEC. 6. That the superintendent of said branch mint be authorized, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and on terms to be prescribed by him, to issue in payment of the gold dust and bullion deposited for assay and coinage or bars, drafts, or certificates of deposit, payable at the treasury or any sub-treasury of the United States, to any depositor electing to receive payment in that form.

SEC. 7. That all the laws and parts of laws now in force for the regulation of the mint of the United States, and for the government of the officers and persons employed therein, and for the punishment of all offences connected with the mint or coinage of the United States shall be, and they are hereby, declared to be in full force in relation to the branch of the mint by this act established, as far as the same may be applicable thereto.

No. 31. APRIL 22, 1864.

CHAP. LXVI. - An Act in Amendment of an Act entitled "An Act relating to Foreign Coins and the Coinage of Cents at the Mint of the United States," approved February twenty-one, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, the standard weight of the cent coined at the mint of the United States shall be forty-eight grains, or one tenth of one ounce troy; and said cent shall be composed of ninety-five per centum of copper, and five per centum of tin and zinc, in such proportions as shall be determined by the director of the mint; and there shall be from time to time struck and coined at the Two-cent pieces mint a two-cent piece, of the same composition, the standard weight of which shall be ninety-six grains, or one fifth of one ounce troy, with no greater deviation than four grains to each piece of said cent and two-cent Shape, devices, coins; and the shape, mottoes, and devices of said coins shall be fixed by the director of the mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the laws now in force relating to the coinage of cents and providing for the purchase of material and prescribing the appropriate duties of the officers of the mint and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and the same are hereby, extended to the coinage herein provided for.

&c.

Present laws extended thereto.

Director of mint to secure

SEC. 2. That all laws now in force relating to the coins of the United States and the striking and coining the same shall, so far as applicable, be extended to the coinage herein authorized, whether said laws are penal or otherwise, for the security of the coin, regulating and guarding the process of striking and coining, for preventing debasement or counterfeiting, or for any other purpose.

SEC. 3. That the director of the mint shall prescribe suitable regulaconformity of al- tions to insure a due conformity to the required weights and proportions of loy in such coins. alloy in the said coins; and shall order trials thereof to be made from time to time by the assayer of the mint, whereof a report shall be made in writing to the director.

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