Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-12

Assistant Secretary Of State, whose salary shall be
three Thousand dollars per annum payable in the
manner as hat OF the Secretary of State who shall per-
form all such duties the Office Of Secretary Of State be
longing TO that Department shall be prescribed by the
Secretary OF State or as may be required by law.
sec. Y Ind De f"ir enacted, That the Secretary Of
the Treasury is hereby authorized and required TO
outstanding debenture bonds given previously the
first day OF july eighteen hundred and fifty upon the
importation OF foreign Goals: Proeided That the said
Goals have been exported to foreign port or consumed
upon the outward voyage, and shall have been
sumed in the United States
Sec. and further enacted That the third section
OF the act entitled An act making appropriations for the
civil and diplomatic expenses of for the year
ending the thrteh ofJune eighteen hundred and forty
seven and Tor other purposes approved August TENTH
eighteen hundred and ortysx and the same is hereby
revived ana continued in force for the fiscal year ending
the thlrtieth june eighteen hundred and ffty-four
Sec. Ind be further enacted That the Secretary Of
the Treasury be and is hereby authorized topurchase
the current any Of the outstanding stocks of
the United States as he may think most advisable from
any surplus funds ia the treasury: Propde That the
balance IN the Treasury shall not any time be reduced
below six millions OF dollars
Sec 10 Aad6ea further enacted That the Secretary of
the Treasury hereby authorized and required to estab
sh in the city Of New York Office for the receipt and
for the melting refining, parting and assaying Of gold
and SILVER bullion AMI foreign con and for casting the
same into bars ngot disks The assistant treasurer
of the United States N New York shall be treasurer Of
the said assay office and the Secretary the Treasury
SHALL with the appreciation and of the President
OF the United States, appoint such other officers and
clerks anu authorize the employment of such assistants
workmen and servants shall be necessary for the pro-
per conduct and management of the said Office and of the
business pertaining thereto, at such compensation shall
be approved by the President Provided That the
shall not exceed that allowed corresponding
under existing laws relating to the mint Of the United
| States and its branches
Sec. H. And bolt further enacted That the owner or
of any goldpr silver bullion in dust otherwise
of any foreign cdn shall be entitled to deposte the
same in the said oc and the treasurer thereof shall
give receipt stat the weight and description thereof
in the manner and Under the regulations that
may be provided in lie depostes at the mint of
the United States with the treasurer thereof And such
bullion shall, without delay, be melted, parted, re-
fined and assayed, add the nett value thereof and
of all foreign coins depSted in said office, shall be
certained; and the ttasurer shall thereupon forth
with issue his certhcae of the nett value thereof,
payable in coins of theeame metal that deposited
either at the Office of the ASSISTANT of the United
States, in New York. he Mint of the United States
the option of the depos be expressed in the
tfcate, which certificates s be receivable at any time
within sixty days from the te thereof in payment Of all
debts due to the United Ses at the port Of New FORK
for the full therein certified. All gold silver bull
lion and foreign coin deposited melted parted refined,
assayed aforesaid, sh& at the option of the depo-
sor, be cast In the said ofe into bars ngos disks
either of pure metal of stidard neness las the
may prefer, with stamp thereon of such form and de-
vice shall be prescribed the Secretary of the Urea
sury, accurately Designating its weight and fneness
Procded That no ingo bal disk shall be cast Of less
weight than five ounces unless the be of standard
fneness and of either two three in weight
And all gold silver billion and foreign coin intended by
the depositor to be concerted into the coins of the United
States SHALL assayed and its nett value cert
fed above provided be transferred the Mint of the
United States under sch directions shall be made by
the Secretary of the Tasury and at the expense Of the
contingent fund of h. mint and shall then be coined
And the Secretary Of e Treasury hereby authorized
with the approval of the President of the United States
to make the necessary regulations for the adjustment of
the accounts between the respective officers upon the
araofar nfat,rr hull
! the mint, and assistant treasurer in New York
Sec. II. And be ID further enacted That the operations
of melting parting tfnng and assaying in the said of
fee shall be under thu general directions of the director
of the mint in the Secretary of the Urea
sury and it shall be The duty of the said director to pre-
scribe such regulations and to order such tests shall be
requisite TO insure fahfuness accuracy, and uniformity
in the operations of the said Office.
Sec. 10. And be Il rher enacted That the laws Of the
United States for the Of the mint and its Off
in relation to the receipt payment custody of depo
sibes Of officers and ohere employed therein the oat
to be taken and the bond and suretes to be given b.
them as far as the may be Applicability shall
to the assay dce hereby established and to its officers
assistants clerks workmen and others employed therein
Sec H. Ind BET further enacted, That the charge
shall be made an6 demanded the said assay office 70
refining parting, casting into bars ingots disks,
fer alloy, or shall be made and demanded at tn
mint and other charges shall be made to depositor
than by law authorized to be made at the mint
the amount received from the charges hereby authorized
contingent expenses of the said Office.
Sec 10 And Be further enacted That the Secretary o.
the Treasury is authorized to procure by rent lease
otherwise, building or apartments in the city OF New
York suitable for the operations of said Office unless he
shall be Of opinion that suitable apartments in the
tom in that city may be assigned for that purpose
And he is also hereby authorized and directed to
the necessary machinery and implements for the carrying
on the operations and business Of the said office
Sec i6 And b. IL further enacted That the salary Of
assistant treasurer Of the United States in New York. from
aud after the time that the said Office shall be opened and
in operation shall be six thousand dollars per annum in
stead Of the sum allowed
Sec IL dad Js further enacted That under the act
for the benefit Of Amos Proctor approved the seventeenth
day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty
the legal representatives Of said Proctor entitled 70
of moiety being fourth Of the appraised
value Of the goods therein mentioned having been seized
and beled on his importation.
See Ig And bet further enacted That there be placed al
the disposal Of the President Of the United States the
Of twenty thousand dollars TO enable him compensate
Clark Mills for the execution Of the equestrian statue OF
Andrew Jackson recently placed upon the public square
in the city Of Washington, north Of the Executive Man
sion and make the the property Of the United
States and said be paid under the direction Of
the President out Of any money in the Treasury other
wise when clear and satisfactory title 70 said
statue shall be vested in the United States Frorided
That the Of ten thousand dollars thereof be invested
fer the family Of said Mills, aud after his death to be
given to such children Of said Mills may survive him.
Sec 10. And be IL further enacted That whenever the
land Office at Pontotoc, Mississippi shall be discontinued
the records and files thereof shall be placed in the posses
sion Of the clerk Of the United States district for
the northern district Of Mississippi who is hereby made
keeper Of the same and authorized perform all the du
ties conferred upon the register and receiver and
shall receive for his services therefor exceeding
Eve hundred dollars per annum.
Sec 20 And Be further enacted That in settling the
accounts OF Daniel s. McCauey late consul general at
Alexandria in EQypt there shall allowed for Office rent