\[PUBLIC---NO. 233---63^D^ CONGRESS.\]

\[S. 6039.\]

An Act For the coinage of certain gold and silver coins in commemoration
of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and for other purposes.

*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 shall cause to be coined at the United States mint at San
Francisco not exceeding three thousand gold coins of the denomination of
\$50 each, ten thousand gold coins of the denomination of \$2.50 each,
twenty-five thousand gold coins of the denomination of \$1 each, and not
exceeding two hundred thousand silver coins of the denomination of 50
cents each, all of legal weight and fineness; said coins to be struck in
commemoration of the Panama Pacific International Exposition. The words,
devices, and designs upon said coins shall be determined and prescribed
by the Secretary of the Treasury, and all provisions of law relative to
the coinage and legal-tender value of all other gold and silver coins
shall be applicable to the coins issued under and in accordance with the
provisions of this Act; and one-half of the issue of \$50 gold coins
herein authorized shall be similar in shape to the octagonal \$50 gold
pieces issued in California in eighteen hundred and fifty-one; and the
entire issue of said \$50, \$2.50, and \$1 coins herein authorized shall
be sold and delivered by the Secretary of the Treasury to the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company at par, under rules and
regulations and in amounts to be prescribed by him. The coinage shall be
executed as soon as may be and the delivery of said coins to begin not
later than the day of the opening of the exposition. Said 50-cent coins
herein authorized shall be issued only upon the request of the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, and shall be delivered
to it by the Secretary of the Treasury, at par, during the period when
said Panama-Pacific International Exposition shall be officially open.

SEC.2. That medals and diplomas, with appropriate devices, emblems, and
inscriptions commemorative of said Panama-Pacific International
Exposition and of the awards to be made to the exhibitors thereat, shall
be prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury at the United States mint
at Philadelphia and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, said medals
and diplomas to be delivered to said Panama-Pacific International
Exposition Company subject to the provisions of section fifty-two of the
coinage Act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three and upon payment of
the cost of the material composing said medals or diplomas.

SEC.3. That the 50-cent silver coins herein authorized may, in the
discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be coined or finished and
issued from the machinery to be installed as a part of the exhibit of
the United States mint at said exposition, and for the purpose of

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maintaining the exhibit as an educative working exhibit at all times the
coins so minted may be remelted and reminted. All of said 50-cent silver
coins herein authorized not issued to and at the request of said
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, whether the same are coined as
a part of said working exhibit or coined at the mint in San Francisco,
shall be remelted upon the official closing of said exposition. All
provisions hereof in regard to the coinage, finishing, or issue of said
50-cent silver coins from machinery installed as a part of the said
exhibit shall be coined, finished, and issued under such regulations as
the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and the Secretary of the
Treasury shall cause to be prepared a suitable souvenir medal (of such
metal or composition of metals as he may prescribe), to be struck off by
the machinery in said mint exhibit, and all of said medals shall be
delivered to said Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company upon
payment of the cost of the material composing the same, and all other
souvenirs which may be coined, stamped, printed, or otherwise issued
from any portion of the United States Government exhibit shall be
delivered to said exposition company upon payment of the cost of the
material composing said souvenirs, and said souvenir medals and other
souvenirs shall be delivered to said Panama-Pacific International
Exposition Company subject to such regulations as to disposition thereof
as the Government exhibit board may prescribe. All provisions, whether
penal or otherwise, of the laws prohibiting the counterfeiting or
imitating of coins or securities of the United States shall apply to the
medals, diplomas, and souvenirs provided for under sections two and
three of this Act.

SEC.4. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to obtain
suitable designs for the coins and medals herein authorized, and the sum
of \$5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to defray the cost of said designs: *Provided,* That the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company shall reimburse the
Treasury Department for the amount thus expended.

Approved, January 16, 1915.

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