Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-03-23


amount in all to two thousand dollars per annum
But it Shall be their further duty when designated
by the head OF the department for that service, TO
Superintend the buildings, and they sail Five
bonds, as provided by The Independent Treasury
act: Provided, That the clerks, when distribute
and arranged as required by this section, shall be
paid according to its provisions out of an, money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, ard
shall constitute the whole of the permanent cieri
cal force of the Departments of the Treasury, War;
Navy, the Interior, and the Post Office, with the
exception of the Census Bureau, which is not in
| cluded in this arrangement, and the clerks tempo
rally employed in the Office of the Third Auditor
on bounty land service and on aEearages of pays
And prov ded further, That each head Of said de-
partments may alter the distribution herein made
of the clerks amongst the various bureaus and off
ces in his department. il he should find 1t necessary
and proper TO do so. tr,sj - i...E
SEC. A. And be it further enacted, That hereafter
! the annual compensation of the Vice President,
Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, and
interior, and the Postmaster and Attorney General
shall be eight thousand dollars each.
SEC. 8. And be il further enacted, That when
private establishments shall be made to refine gold
bullion, the Secretary of the Treasury, if he shall
deem them capable of executing such work, is
hereby authorized and required TO limit the amount
thereof which shall be refined IN the mint at Phla-
delphia from quarter to quarter, and to reduce the
same progressively rs such esta blshment shall be
extended or multiplied, SO as eventually, and as
may be, 10 exclude refining from the mint, and TO
require that every deposit of gold bullion made
therein for coinage S all be adapted 10 said pur-
pose, without need of refining: Provided, That no
advance in coin shall be made upon bullion after
this regulation shall be carried INTO effect, except
upon bullion refined as herein prescribed.
SEC. q. And be it further enacted, That an Off
Ger shall be appointed in the Department of State,
to be called the Assistant Secretary of State whose
salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum,
payable in the same manner that of the ecretary
of State, who shall perform all such duties in the
Office Of the Secretary of State belonging To that
department cs Shall be prescribed by the Secretary
. oil Stale, be required by law.
SEc. I. AMI be itiurther enacted, That the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury is hereby author Zed and
CURED 10 cancel any outstanding dcbenture bonds
given previously TO the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and fifty, upon the importation of foreign
Goals: Provided, That the said Goals have been ex-
ported 10 foreign port or consumed upon the out
! ward voyage, aud shall have been COUSued IN the
| United States. ..-- --s---
1 SIC. s, And lie ii further. enuced, That the
! third cotton of the act entitled can act making
appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expen-
SEES OF Government for he year ending the thrtieth
OF June, eighteen hundred and forty seven, and for
other purposes" approved August tenth, eighteen
! hundr, and iortySx, be, and the same is hereby,
revived and continued IN force for the fiscal year
| ending the thrtieth of June, eighteen hundred
AMI Iilty-Gou -.al.
SIC. g. And DC Il further enacted, That III.
Secretary of the Treasury be, and lie is hereby a-
IhoriZel 10 purchase at the current market price
any the outstanding stocks of the United States
us ne may think most advisable from any surplus
funds IN the treasury: Provided that the balance in
The treasury Shall not at any time be reduced be-
low SIX millions OF dollars
! SEC. 10. And be II further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and
| required TO establish in the city Of New York an
office for the receipt and for the melting, refining,
parting, and aSSaylng of gold and silver bullion
aud foreign COM and 70. casting The sans into bars
ngots or discs. The Assistant Treasurer OF the
United States in New York shall be treasurer of the
sad assay office, and the Secretary of the Treasury
shall, with the appreciation and consent of the
President oil the United States, appoint such other
officers and erkS and authorize the employment
OF such assistants, workmcn, and servants shall
be necessary iur the proper conduct and manage
4 meht oil the SAID Office, and OF the bus ness per
i tanning thereto, al such compensation as shall he
! approved by the Presidents: Provided That the
same Shall not exceed that allowed for Spon-
ding services under existing laws relating 10 the
mint of The United States and its branches.
Sec. IL. And be it further enacted, That the
owner or owners OF any gold silver bullion in
dust or Otherwise, or of any foreign COIN shall be
treasurer thereof shall give receipt, stating the
weight and DESCRIPTION thereof, i'll the manner and
under the regulations that may be provided
III like cases or deposits at tie mint of the United
States. with the Treasurer tk9TeOf. And such bull.
hon shall without delay be melted, parted, II fined,
and aSsayed, ard the net value thereof, and OF
all tore.gn ctins deposited i'll said office, shall be-
aScertalned and tie treasurer Shai thereupon forth
with issue his certificate of the net value thereof
payahle III COINS OF the metal as that deposi
ted, either al the Office of the Assistant Treasurer
OF The United States in New York, or al the mint
oil tn United States ut the option of the depcSltor
TO be- preSSed i'll the certificates which certificates
shall be recoverable at any time within sixty DAYS
from the date thereof, i'll payment of ali debts due 10
The Umied Stat al the port of n York for the full
ISum therein certified. Nj gold or silver bullion
land foreign deposited, Melted parted re-
hned, or aSSaycd, as aforesaid, shall, at the option
lot the depoSitor be cast in the said Office into bars
nSotS or discs, either of pure metal or of standard
hneneSS, Gas the owner may preGer,) with STAMP
thereon Of such form and device as shall be pre-
scribed by the Secretary OF the Treasury accura e.
~ designating itSweight and ineness: Provided
That no insot, bar, OF disc shall be cast of less
weight than five ounces. unless the same ne of
STANDARD fncnesS, aud of either one, two or three
ounces m weight.
And all gold or silver bullion, and foreign coin,
intended by The depoSitor to be converted into the
COINS ui The United States, shall as soon as ASSAY
cd and It's net value certified above provided be
transferred to the nint of the United Stetes under
such directions as shall be made by the Secretary
OF lie Treasury, and NJ the expense of the CON
tlneent fund OF the mint, and shall there be coined
/ And The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby au :
thourIzed, whit approval Of the President the
| Chittd States, 10 make the necessary regulations
lor The adjustment Of the accounts between the re
speclre officers, upon the transfer of anybullions OF
com between the assay office, the mint and GSsIS-
ltant treasurer i'll N. York
| SEC. IL. And be ii further enacted, That the
operations OF melting, parting, refining and assay
ing IN the said office, shall be under the general
directions OF the Dreo tor OF the Mint in subord-
nation to the Secretatyof the Treasury; and it sha
Oethe duty of the said director to prescribe snch
regulations, and TO order such tests as Shall he re
qnlSlte TO insure Gathfu!ness accuracy, and uni
iormily III the operations of the said Office
SEC 10. And be ii further enacted, That The,
laws OF The United States for the government of
The mint and its officers in relation 10 the recent
/ payment, custody of deposits, and settlement of
accounts the duties and responsibilities of officers
and others employed thern, the oath to be taken
ana the bond and sureties be given by them las
lar as the same may be appcable) shall extend TO
the Essay Office hereby established and TO its Off
GERS, assistants, clerks, workmen, and othe.s en-
Ip'oyed therein
SEC. ID. And be it further enacte, That the
same charges shall be made and demanded at the
sad assay Office FOR refining, parting, casting into