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dily as may be out of the coins which fhal have been made of the bullion for which the monies fo furnished fhall have been exchanged; the half per and the faid deduction of one half per cent thall cent to con- conftitute a fund towards defraying the expenfes of the faid mint.

flitute a

fund, &c.

Order of

delivering

coins to

perfons bringing

bullion and penalty on giving undue preference, &c.

Coinsmade a lawful tender.

Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That the bullion which fhall be brought as aforesaid to the mint to be coined, fhall be coined, and the equivalent thereof in coins rendered, if demanded, in the order in which the faid bullion fhall have been brought or delivered, giving priority according to priority of delivery only, and without preference to any perfon or perfons; and if any preference fhall be given contrary to the direction aforefaid, the officer by whom fuch undue preference fhall be given, fhall in each cafe forfeit and pay one thousand dollars; to be recovered with cofts of fuit. And to the end that it may be known if fuch. preference fhall at any time be given, the affayer or officer to whom the faid bullion fhall be delivered to be coined, fhall give to the perfon or perfons bringing the fame, a memorandum in writing under his hand, denoting the weight, finenefs and value thereof, together with the day and order of its delivery into the mint.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That all the gold and filver coins which fhall have been ftruck at, and iffued from the faid mint, fhall be a lawful tender in all payments whatsoever, thofe of full weight according to the refpective values herein before declared, and thofe of lefs than full weight at values proportional to their refpective weights.

Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That it

and to be

to the

fhall be the duty of the refpective officers of the faid mint, carefully and faithfully to use made contheir best endeavours that all the gold and fil- formable ver coins which thall be ftruck at the faid mint ftandard fhall be, as nearly as may be, conformable to weights, the feveral ftandards and weights aforefaid, and that the copper whereof the cents and half cents aforefaid may be compofed, fhall be of good quality.

&c.

furer to reless than 3

ferve not

pieces of each coin

to be affay

ed.

&c.

Sec. 18. And the better to fecure a due con- The treaformity of the faid gold and filver coins to their respective standards, Be it further enacted, That from every feparate mass of ftandard gold or filver, which fhall be made into coins at the faid mint, there fhall be taken, fet apart by the Treasurer and reserved in his cuftody a certain number of pieces, not less than three, and that once in every year the pieces fo fet apart and referved, fhall be affayed under the infpection of the Chief Juftice of the United States, when and the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treafury, by whom, the Secretary for the Department of State, and the Attorney General of the United States (who are hereby required to attend for that purpose at the faid mint, on the laft Monday in July in each year) or under the inspection of any three of them, in fuch manner as they or a majority of them fhall direct, and in the prefence of the director, affayer and chief coiner of the faid mint; and if it fhall be found that the gold and filver fo affayed, fhall not be inferior to their respective standards herein before declared more than one part in one hundred and forty four parts, the officer or officers of the faid mint whom it may concern fhall be held excufable; but if any greater inferiority fhall appear, it fhall be certified to the Prefident of the United States, and the faid officer

Penalty on debafing the coins.

or officers fhall be deemed difqualified to hold their respective offices.

Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That if any of the gold or filver coins which shall be ftruck or coined at the faid mint, fhall be debased or made worfe as to the proportion of fine gold or fine filver therein contained, or fhall be of lefs weight or value than the fame ought to be pursuant to the directions of this act, through the default or with the connivance of any of the officers or perfons who shall be employed at the faid mint, for the purpose of profit or gain, or otherwife with a fraudulent intent, and if any of the faid officers or perfons fhall embezzle any of the metals which fhall at any time be committed to their charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins which fhall be ftruck or coined at the faid mint, every fuch officer or perfon who fhall commit any or either of the faid offences, fhall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death. Money of Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That the account to money of account of the United States fhall be be exprelfed in dol- expreffed in dollars or units, difmes or tenths, lais, &c. cents or hundredths, and milles or thousandths, a difme being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, a mille the thoufandth part of a dollar, and that all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States fhall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker
of the House of Reprefentatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United
States and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, April the fecond, 1792:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XVII.

An Act fupplementary to the Act for the establishment and Support of Light-Houfes, Beacons, Buoys, and Public Piers.

B

&c. to be

Sec. I. E it enacted by the Senate and Expenfes Houfe of Reprefentatives of the of beacons, United States of America in Congress affembled, borne till That all expenfes which fhall accrue from the July 1793. first day of July next, inclufively, for the neceffary fupport, maintenance, and repairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys, the stakeage of channels, on the fea coaft, and public piers, fhall continue to be defrayed by the United States, until the first day of July, in the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-three, notwithstanding fuch light-houfes, beacons, or public piers, with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging, and the jurifdiction of the fame, fhall not in the mean time be ceded to, or vefted in the United States, by the ftate or ftates respectively, in which the fame may be, and that the faid time be further allowed, to the states respectively to make fuch ceffion.

Floating

beacons to

be placed

at Charlef

and Chefa

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treafury be authorized to cause to be provided, erected, and placed, à floating beacon, and as many buoys, as may ton harbor be neceffary for the fecurity of navigation, at, and near the entrance of the harbor of Charlef ton, in the ftate of South-Carolina. And alfo to have affixed three floating beacons in the bay of Chefapeak; one at the north end of Willoughby's Spit, another at the tail of the

peak bay.

Horfe-Shoe; and the third on the fhoaleft place of the middle ground.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker
of the House of Reprefentatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, April twelfth, 1792:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

Lighthouse on certain

to be built

on Montok Point in

state of

CHAPTER XVIII.

An Act to erect a Light-Houfe on Montok Point in the State of New-York.

BE

E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That as foon as the conditions jurifdiction of fuch land on Montok point in the state of New-York, as the President of the United States fhall deem fufficient and most New-York. proper for the convenience and accommodation of a light-houfe fhall have been ceded to the United States, it fhall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treafury, to provide by contract, which fhall be approved by the President of the United States, for building a light-houfe thereon, and for furnishing the fame with all neceffary supplies, and alfo to agree for the falaries or wages of the perfon or perfons who may be appointed by the Prefident for the fuperintendance and care of the fame; and the Prefident is hereby authorized to make the faid, appointments. That the number and difpofi

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