ury notes. his official designation had been correctly stated; and all coupons bearing the engraved signature of the Register of the Treasury in office at the time when such signatures were authorized and engraved, shall have full force, validity, and effect, notwithstanding such Register may have subsequently ceased to hold office as such, when issued in connection with bonds duly authorized and signed by or for the successor or successors of said Register. And the Treasury Form of Treas notes and United States notes authorized by this act shall be in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct and shall bear the written or engraved signatures of the Treasurer of the United States and the Register of the Treasury, and shall have printed upon them such statements, showing the amount of accrued or accruing interest and the character of the notes, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and shall bear, as a further evidence of lawful issue, the imprint of the seal of the Treasury Department, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as before directed. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue, upon such terms and under such regulations as he may from time to time prescribe, registered bonds in exchange for, and in lieu of, any coupon bonds which have been or may hereafter be lawfully issued; such registered bonds to be similar in all respects to the registered bonds issued under the acts authorizing the issue of the coupon bonds offered for exchange. And for all mutilated, defaced, or indorsed coupon or other bonds presented to the Department, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue, upon terms and under regulations as aforesaid, and in substitution therefor, other bonds of like or equivalent issues. Registered bonds may be issued for coupon. p. R. S., 3706, post, 134. Mutilated, defaced, &c., bonds. preparing United p. 103. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of Instructions, the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to make cers receiving or and issue, from time to time, such instructions, rules, and states notes, &c. regulations, to the several collectors, receivers, depositaries, officers, and others, who may receive Treasury notes, R. S., 251, post, United States notes, or other securities in behalf of the United States, or who may be in any way engaged or employed in the preparation and issue of the same, as he shall deem best calculated to promote the public convenience and security, and to protect the United States, as well as individuals, from fraud and loss. Expenses of preparing and SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the necessary expenses of engraving, printing, preparing, and issuing the issuing bonds, United States notes, Treasury notes, fractional notes, &c., how ceed one per cent. notes, and borne; not to ex p. 129. R. S., 3578, post, bonds, hereby authorized, and of disposing of the same to subscribers and purchasers, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; but the whole amount thereof shall not exceed one per centum on the amount of notes and bonds issued. Penalty for counterfeiting or States securities. p. 135. p. 136. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or altering United persons shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause R. S., 5414, post, or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered, any obligation or security of the United States, or shall pass, For uttering, utter, publish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or &c., counterfeit, &c. sell, or shall bring into the United States from any foreign R.S., 5431, post, place with intent to pass, 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 obligation, or other security, with intent to deceive or defraud, or shall knowingly aid or assist in any of the acts aforesaid, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement at hard labor not exceeding fifteen years, according to the aggravation of the offence. p. 135. For using SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any person plates to print. notes without au- having control, custody, or possession of any plate or thority. R. S., 5430, post, plates from which any obligation or other security, or any part thereof, shall have been printed, or which may have been prepared by direction from the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of printing any such obligation or other security, or any part thereof, shall use such plate or plates, or knowingly suffer the same to be used, for the purpose of printing any such or similar obligation, or other security, or any part thereof, except such as shall be printed for the use of the United States, by order of For engraving the proper officer thereof; or if any person shall engrave, plates, &c. or cause or procure to be engraved, or shall aid or assist in engraving, any plate or plates in the likeness or similitude of any plate or plates designed for the printing of any such obligation or other security, 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, except under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer, or with any other intent, or for any other purpose, in either case, than that such plate or plates shall be used for the printing of such notes, bonds, coupons, or other obligations or securities, or some part or parts thereof, for the use of the United States, or shall have in his control, custody, or possession, &c.; any metallic plate engraved after the similitude of any plate from which any such obligation or other security, 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 obligation or other security, or any part or parts thereof, or shall have in his custody or possession, except under authority from the Secretary of the Treasury, or other proper officer, any obligation or other security, engraved and printed after the similitude of any obligation or other security issued under the authority of the United States, with intent to sell or otherwise use the same; or if any Penalty for printing or phoperson shall print, photograph, or in any other manner tographing notes, make or execute, or cause to be printed, photographed, or in any manner made or executed, or shall aid in printing, photographing, making, or executing any engraving, photograph, or other print or impression in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or other security, or any part or parts 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 for- for bringing eign place any such engraving, photograph, print, or other States such photographed, &c., impression, except by the direction of some proper officer notes; of the United States, or shall have or retain in his custody or possession, after a distinctive paper shall have been adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury for obligations and other securities of the United States, any similar paper adapted to the making of any such obligation or other security, except under authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, or some other proper officer of the United States, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment and confinement at hard labor, not exceeding fifteen years, or by both, in the discretion of the court. into the United plates, &c., with SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any person for retaining shall have or retain in his or her custody, possession, or out authority; control, without the written authority or warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury, or of the Comptroller of the Currency, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, any engraved or transferred plate, block, or electrotype, or any die, roll, or other original work used in making or prepar ing any plate, block, or electrotype, or any plate, block, or electrotype prepared or made after the similitude of any plate, block, or electrotype, from which any obligation or other security authorized to be issued by any act of Con &c., in counterfeiting notes. gress, or any part thereof, has been or may hereafter be, printed, or shall use, or cause or knowingly suffer the same for using plates, to be used, in forging or counterfeiting any such obligation or other security, or shall print, or cause to be printed, any bronzed or gilt letters or devices, or shall print, or cause to be printed, any letters, figures, or devices with green ink, or any green color or pigment, upon any note, bond, or other representative of value, intended or adapted to be used as a currency or a circulating medium, every such person, being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be imprisoned and kept at hard labor for a term not more than ten years, and fined in a sum not more than ten thousand dollars: Pending prose- Provided, That nothing in this act shall affect any proseformer act not af-cution pending, or any civil or criminal liabilities incurred, cutions under fected. Proviso. Words "obligation or other se clude what. p. 135. under any former act: Provided further, That the foregoing provisions of this section shall not be held or construed to deprive any person of the right to retain in his custody and possession and use for any lawful purpose, any engraved or transferred plate, block, or electrotype, or any die, roll, or other original work as aforesaid, which had been used by him in printing or engraving bank notes or other obligations, before being used in printing any obligation or other security authorized to be issued by any act of Congress; nor shall any of said foregoing provisions be held or construed to prohibit or restrain the lawful use by any person of any ink, color, or pigment, the exclusive right to which has been secured to any such person by letters patent which are still in force. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the words "oblicurity," &c.,to in- gation or other security of the United States," used in this R. S., 5413, post, act, shall be held to include and mean all bonds, coupons, national currency, United States notes, Treasury notes, fractional notes, checks for money of authorized officers of the United States, certificates of indebtednes, certificates of deposit, stamps, and other representatives of value of whatever denomination, which have been or may be issued under any act of Congress. Approved June 30, 1864. Jan. 28, 1865. Vol. XIII, p. 425. CHAP. XXII.-AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PRO- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in May issue Treasury notes of those author thir-ized by 2d section of the act of June 30, 1864, in lieu of bonds. Ante, p. 63. not to exceed lieu of any bonds authorized to be issued by the first section of the act entitled "An act to provide ways and means of same character for the support of the government," approved June tieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, that may remain unsold at the date of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue, under the authority of said act, Treasury notes of the description and character authorized by the second section of said act: Provided, That the whole amount of Whole amount bonds authorized as aforesaid, and Treasury notes issued $400,000,000. and to be issued in lieu thereof, shall not exceed the sum of four hundred millions of dollars; and such Treasury notes May receive may be disposed of for lawful money, or for any other debtedness or Treasury notes or certificates of indebtedness or certificates posit in payment. of deposit issued under any previous act of Congress; and such notes shall be exempt from taxation by or under State or municipal authority. certificates of in certificates of de Exempt from cipal taxation. State and muni R. S., 3701, post, p. 133. May issue any 5-20 bonds not ex remaining unsold ruary 25, 1862. Ante, p. 44. May sell bonds or Europe. in United States SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any bonds known as five-twenties, issued under the act of twenty-fifth Feb- ceeding $4,000,000 ruary, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, remaining unsold of the act of Febto an amount not exceeding four millions of dollars, may be disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury in the United States, or, if he shall find it expedient, in Europe, at any time, on such terms as he may deem most advisable: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to give any authority for the issue of any legal-tender notes, in any form, beyond the balance unissued of the amount authorized by the second section of the act to which this is an amendment. Approved January 28, 1865. No further is sue of legal-tend er notes author ized. CHAP. LXXVII.-AN ACT TO PROVIDE WAYS AND MEANS FOR THE March 3, 1865. SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT. Vol. XIII, p. 468. Post, p. 75. Secretary of the Treasury author sums not exceed 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized ized to borrow to borrow, from time to time, on the credit of the United ing $600,000,000. States, in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized, any sums not exceeding in the aggregate six hundred millions of dollars, and to issue therefor bonds or Treasury notes of the United States, in such form as he may prescribe; and so much thereof as may be issued in bonds shall be of denominations not less than fifty dollars, and may be made payable at any period not more than forty years from date of issue, or may be made redeemable, at the pleasure of the government, at or after any period not Bonds or Treasury notes may be issued therefor. |