\[ACT OF FEBRUARY 9, 1793\]

An act regulating foreign coins, making them legal tender, and
establishing

their value, etc.

SECTION 1. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-*

*resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-*

*sembled,* That from and after the first day of July next,

foreign gold and silver coins shall pass current as money

within the United Sates, and be a legal tender for the

payment of all debts and demands, at the several and re-

spective rates following, and not otherwise, viz: The gold

coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present stand-

ard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-

seven 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 twen-

ty-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 pennyweights and seven

grains; and in proportion for the parts of a dollar. Crowns

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of France, at the rate of one hundred and ten cents for

each crown, the actual weight whereof shall not be less

than eighteen pennyweight 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 aforesaid, until samples

thereof shall have been found, by assay, at the Mint of the

United States, to be conformable to the respective stand-

ards required, and proclamation thereof shall have been

made by the President of the United States.

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 silver, agreeably to the act, entitled

"An 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 proc-

lamation of the President of the United States,) all foreign

gold coins and all foreign silver coins, except Spanish

milled dollars and parts of such dollars, shall cease to be a

legal tender, as aforesaid.

SEC. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That all foreign gold

and silver coins, (except Spanish milled dollars, and parts

of such dollars,) which shall be received in payment for

monies due to the United States, after the said time, when

the coining of gold and silver coins shall begin at the Mint

of the United States, shall, previously to their being issued

in circulation, be coined anew, in conformity to the act, en-

titled "An act establishing a Mint and regulating the

coins of the United States."

SEC. 4. *And be if further enacted,* That from and after

the first day of July next, the fifty-fifth section of the act,

entitled "An act to provide more effectually for the collec-

tion of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares, and mer-

chandise imported into the United States," which ascer-

tains the rates at which foreign gold and silver coins shall

be received for the duties and fees to be collected in virtue

of the said act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. Fixes the annual time for making assays.

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