Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-10

OF the Supreme Court OF the State OF
each become bound to the United States Of Amerie I
suretes to the satisfaction the director ~
the mint and the Secretary of the Treasury or the
attorney Of the United States for the State Of California
with condition for the faithful and dgent performance
of their Offices
Sec4 And6e further enacted That the general direction
Of the business Of said branch of the mint Of the Uns
states shall pc under the control and regulation of the
director Of the mint at Philadelphia subject to the
baton Of the Secretary Of the Treasury and for that
pose II shall be the duty Of the said director to prescribe
such regulations and require such returns periodically
ana occasionally as shall appear him TO be necessary
for the purpose Of carrying into effect the intention Of s
act in establishing the said branch also for the
OF discriminating the coin which shall be stamped at said
branch and at the mint itself and also for the purpose
Of preserving uniformity Of weight FORM and fneness in
the coins stamped at said branch and for that purpose
to require the transmission and delivery to him al tie
mint from time to me Of such parcels of the coinage Of
said branch he shall think proper to he subiectAd n
such assays and tests as he shall direct =
Sec 8. And be further enacted That all the ays ann
parts OF laws in force for the regulation Of the mint
Of the United States and for the government Of the OH
GERS and persons employed therein, and for the punish
men Of all offences connected with the mint or coinage o
the United States shall be and they hereby declared
to be in full force in relation to the branch Of ~
this act established SO far the may be applicable
thereto. f
Sec g. Ind be further enacted That no permanent To-
cation OF said mint shall be made or buildings erected
therefor, until the State Of California shall by some aN
tax shall at any time be laid assessed or collected by the
said State under the authority Of the said State on the
said branch mint or on the buildings which may be
ed therefor or on the fixtures and machinery which may
be used therein the lands which the same msy
be placed but nothing in this section contained shall be
understood as implying admission that any such power
of taxation rightfully exists $3.50
Sec. T. Ind be further enacted That the said branch
mint shall be the place eposite for the public moneys
collected in the custom houses in the State Of California
and for such other public moneys the Secretary Of the
Treasury may direct and the treasurer Of said branch
mint shall have the custody of the same and shall per-
form the duties of assistant treasurer and for pur
pose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an
act entitled act provide for better organization
Of the Treasury and for the collection, safekeepnG
transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue APP
proved August the SIXTH thousand eight hundred and
ortysx which relates to the treasurer Of the branch
mint at New Orleans 4
Sec. 8. lind be further enacted That if required by
the holder gold in grain Jumps shall be refined assay
ed cast into bars ingots and stamped in said branch
mint in the mint of the United States or any of its
branches in such manner may indicate the value
neness Of the bar ngct which shall be paid for the
holder Of said bullion at such rates and charges
and under such regulations the director Of the mint
under the control of the Secretary Of the Treasury may
from time to time establish
Sec g. 4nd be further enacted That SO soon as the said
branch mint is established in the State Of California and
public notice shall be given thereof in the mode to be de-
sgnated by the Secretary of the Treasury then much
OF the act making appropriations for the civil and dplo
matte expenses Of the Government for the year ending
hireth June, eighteen hundred and ffy-one, and for
other purposes provides for the appointment of
United States and the contracting for the ass
ing and fixing the value of gold in grain Jumps
forming the same into bars, be, and the whole of the
clause containing said provisions shall be- hereby repealed
Sec 10 And be further enacted, That before the Sec
rotary of the Treasury shall procure the build
ings provided for in the second section of this act or
operations under any Of the provisions the
same at San Francisco State Of California shall be his
duty to make contract contracts for the erection of
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the operations Of said mint, at which shall
in the whole exceed the of three hundred Thousand
dollars which said contract contracts shall be secured
by good and sufficient surete the satisfaction of the
said Secretary of the Treasury and the President of the
United States. [Approved, July 8, 1852.
[PUBLIo Acr--No. 20
AN ACT to amend entitled act for the punish
ment of crimes in the District of Columbia
Whereas it has been represented that much of the
third section Of the of which this an
provides punishment for the macously wilful or
burning Of stores barns or outhouses not adj
joining dwelling house, has been construed apply to
the cases Of burning such houses only when they contain
tobacco grain, or hay whereby offenders
have escaped punishment for burning buildings in which
none Of said articles were kept:
BE enacted By e Senate and House Of Representatives. of
the United States Of Amsriea Congress assembled That
em and after the passage Of this act if any person
persons shall malciousy wilfuly fraudulently and
with intent to nure deraud any other person per-
sons or body polite corporate burn, fire with
intent to burn, or attempt to set fire burn any
house clubhouse in the District columbia whether
the same be finished in the process of erection though
the said house clubhouse shall not the time of such
burning, setting fire. attempting to set Ere
burn, have any goods tobacco hay grain therein
be adjoining to any dwelling house, be occupedor
used for any purpose whatever he she they,
vicon thereof shall be sentenced to suffer the pun
shment and labor provided in the said third section Of
the said act to which this is amendment for the
offences therein enumerated fApproved, July 3, 1852
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1PuBIac REsoLUTioN--No. II $50
JOINT RESOLUTION accepting from Giuseppe Fsgnani
portrait Of Henry Clay, and ordering it to be placed
in the Library of Congress. Hla W.
Resolved by The Senate and House Of Representatives. Of The
United States Of America Congress assenblsd That the
portrait Of Henry Clay presented to the nation by 0ui-
eppe Fagnan resident Of New York. be placed in the
Library Of Congress Improved, July 8, 1852.
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