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and half cents, shall be, and the fame is hereby repealed.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker

of the House of Representatives.

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

APPROVED, January fourteenth, 1793:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,

President of the United States.

CHAPTER III.

An Act to provide for the Allowance of Interest on the Sum ordered to be paid by the Refolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-five, as an Indemnity to the Perfons therein named.

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CHAPTER IV.

An Act to continue in Force for a limited Time, and to amend the Act, intitled "An Act providing the Means of Intercourse between the United States, and Foreign Nations.

Sec. 1. E it enacted by the Senate and

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and foreign nations," which would expire at the end of the present session of Congress, be, and the fame hereby is, together with this act, continued in force for the space of one year, from the paffing of this act, and from thence, until the end of the feffion of Congress then, or next thereafter holden, and no longer.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cafes, where any sum or fums of money when fet- have issued, or shall hereafter issue, from the Treasury, for the purposes of intercourse or treaty, with foreign nations, in pursuance of any law, the President shall be, and he hereby is authorized to cause the fame to be duly fettled annually with the accounting officers of the Treasury, in manner following, that is to fay; by caufing the fame to be accounted for, specifically, in all instances, wherein the expenditure thereof may, in his judgment, be made public; and by making a certificate or certificates, or causing the Secretary of State to make a certificate or certificates of the amount of fuch expenditures, as he may think it advisable not to specify; and every fuch certificate shall be deemed a fufficient voucher for the fum or fums therein expressed to have been expended.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United

States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, February ninth, 1793:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

President of the United States.

CHAPTER V.

An Act regulating Foreign Coins, and for other

Sec. 1.

Purposes.

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E it enacted by the Senate and of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, Rates of foThat from and after the first day of July next, tablished reign coins foreign gold and filver coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands, at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise, viz. The gold coins of Great-Britain and Portugal, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-feven grains of the actual weight thereof; the gold coins of France, Spain and the dominions of Spain, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty seven grains and two fifths of a grain, of the actual weight thereof. Spanish milled dollars, at the rate of one hundred cents for each dollar, the actual weight whereof shall not be less than seventeen penny weights and seven grains; and in proportion for the parts of a dollar. Crowns of France, at the rate of one hundred and ten cents, for each crown, the actual weight whereof, shall not be less than eighteen penny weights and seventeen grains, and in proportion for the parts of a crown. But no foreign coin that may have been, or shall be issued subsequent to the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be a tender, as aforefaid, until samples thereof shall have been found, by assay, at the mint of the United States, to be conformable to the refVOL. II.

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pective standards required, and proclamation thereof shall have been made by the Prefident of the United States.

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Sec. 2. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That at the expiration of three years next ensuing the time when the coinage of gold and filver, agreeably to the act, intitled, act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States," shall commence at the mint of the United States, (which time shall be announced by the proclamation of the President of the United States) all foreign gold coins, and all foreign filver coins, except Spanish milled dollars and parts of fuch dollars, shall cease to be a legal tender, as aforefaid.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all reign coins foreign gold and filver coins, (except Spanith milled dollars, and parts of fuch dollars) which shall be received in payment for monies due to the United States, after the faid time, when the coining of gold and filver coins shall begin at the mint of the United States, fhall, previously to their being issued in circulation, be coined anew, in conformity to the act, intitled "An act establishing a mint and regula

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to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties impofed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States," which afcertains the rates at which foreign gold and filver coins shall be received for the duties and fees to be collected in virtue of the faid act, be, and the fame is hereby repealed.doc of و گوند

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Affay of afflay, provided to be made by the act, intitled, coins wher " An act establishing a mint, and regulating mence. the coins of the United States," shall commence in the manner as by the faid act is prescribed, on the second Monday of February, annually, any thing in the faid act to the contrary notwithstanding.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Spcaker
of the House of Representatives.

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

APPROVED, February ninth, 1793:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER VI.

An Act relative to Claims against the United States, not barred by any Act of Limitation, and which have not been already adjusted.

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it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Limitation States of America in Congress affembled, That of certains all claims upon the United States, for fervices gainft U.S. or supplies, or for other cause, matter or thing, to ist May, furnished or done, previous to the fourth day 1294. of March, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, whether founded upon certificates, or other written documents from public offi cers, or otherwise, which have not already been barred by any act of limitation, and which shall not be presented at the treasury,

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