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Appropria- money in the United States Treasury not otherwise ́appropriated, be, and hereby is, set apart as a perpetual fund for the purpose of aiding the education of the blind in the American United States of America through the American Printing Printing-House for the Blind. House for the Blind.

Investment.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby directed to hold said sum in trust for the purpose aforesaid; and it shall be his duty, upon the passage of this act, to invest said sum in United States interestbearing bonds, bearing interest at four per centum, of the issue of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, and upon their maturity to reinvest their proceeds in other United States interest-bearing bonds, and so on forever.

Approved, March 3, 1879.

June 9, 1879.
Vol. 21, p. 7.

coins.

CHAP. XII.-AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXCHANGE OF SUBSIDIARY
COINS FOR LAWFUL MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER CER-
TAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, AND TO MAKE SUCH COINS A LEGAL TEN-
DER IN ALL SUMS NOT EXCEEDING TEN DOLLARS, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Subsidiary the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the holder of any of the silver coins of the United States of smaller denominations than one dollar, may, on presentation of the same in sums of twenty dollars, or any multiple thereof, at the office of the Treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the United States, receive therefor lawful money of the United States.

Redemption.

Legal tender.

Repeals.

SEC. 2. The Treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the United States who may receive any coins under the provision of this act shall exchange the same in sums of twenty dollars, or any multiple thereof, for lawful money of the United States, on demand of any holder thereof.

SEC. 3. That the present silver coins of the United States of smaller denominations than one dollar shall hereafter be a legal tender in all sums not exceeding ten dollars in full payment of all dues public and private.

SEC. 4. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, June 9, 1879.

June 10, 1879.

CHAP. XVII.—AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO ISSUE TWENTY-YEAR FIVE PER CENT.
BONDS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO REDEEM CERTAIN Vol. 21, p. 9.
FUNDED INDEBTEDNESS OF SAID DISTRICT.

Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of District of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to prepare, execute, and deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States bonds Issue of bonds. of the District of Columbia, bearing interest not exceeding five per centum per annum, and payable twenty years after date, to the amount of not more than one million two hundred thousand dollars, the proceeds to be used only for the redemption of funded indebtedness of said District or of the late municipal corporations of Washington and Georgetown which became due January first and March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, or those now existing and payable at pleasure, for the redemption of which the sinking-fund of said District may not provide. Said five per Form, &c. centum bonds shall be in such form and denominations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall approve, and shall be numbered consecutively and registered in the office of the auditor of said District, and also in the office of the Register of the Treasury of the United States, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, and shall bear the seal of the District of Columbia: Provided, That this act Proviso. shall not be construed to make the government of the United States liable for either the principle [principal] or interest of said bonds, or any part thereof.

Said bonds shall be sold by the Secretary of the Treasury to the highest bidder upon public tender, but for not less than their par value, after being advertised for one week in two daily newspapers in the city of Washington and two in the city of New York. The bids shall be opened by the Secretary of the Treasury and the awards approved by him. The money realized from the sale of said bonds shall be paid out by the Secretary of the Treasury only for the purposes named in this act.

Sale of bonds and disposition of proceeds.

SEC. 2. That the provisions of all acts conflicting here- Repeals. with, and the acts or parts of acts authorizing said Commissioners of the District of Columbia to issue bonds to redeem certain bonds of said District falling due January first and March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, no bonds having been issued thereunder, are hereby repealed. Approved, June 10, 1879.

June 21, 1879. CHAP. XXXIV.-AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Vol. 21, p. 23.

Payment of arrearages of

p. 30.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *

SEC. 3. * * * In order to provide for the speedy payment pensions. of arrearages of pensions, the Secretary of the Treasury is 1879, ch. 34, hereby authorized and directed to issue immediately in payment thereof, as they may be adjusted, the legal-tender currency, now in the United States Treasury, held as a Fractional special fund for the redemption of fractional currency under section one of joint resolution number seventeen of the Congress of the United States, approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and fractional currency presented for redemption shall be redeemed in any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

currency re

serve.

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Approved, June 21, 1879.

March 3, 1881. CHAP. CXXXIII.-AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY CIVIL EXPENSES (OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Vol. 21, p. 457.

Redemption of United States bonds.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury may at any time apply the surplus money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as he may consider proper, to the purchase or redemption of United States bonds: Provided, That the bonds so purchased or redeemed shall constitute no part of the sinking-fund, but shall be cancelled.

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Approved, March 3, 1881.

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