The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-02-19


ernment Of the officers and persons en-
ployed therein, and for the punishment
OF oil offences connected with the mint
or coinage Of the United States, shall
be, and they are hereby declared to be
in full force in relation 10 the branch of
the mint by this act established, so far
as the same may be applicable thereto
Sec. 6. And Be ii .tW4her enacted,
That no permanent location Of said mint
shall be made. or buildings erected there.
for, until the state of California shall,
by some law or other public act, pledge
The faith of the state that no tax shall
at any time be laid, assessed or colIec-
ted by the said state, or under the au
thority of the said state, on the said
blach mint, or on the buildings which
may be erected therefor, or on the fix
lures and machinery which may be used
therein. or on the lands on which the
same may be placed; but nothing in
this section contained, shall be under
stood as implying an admission that any
such power of taxation rightfully exists.
Sec. I. And be a. HtMther enac.ed,
That the said branch mint shall be the
place of deposit for the public moneys
collected in the cuslom.honses in tile
state Of California, and for such other
public moneys as the Secretary of the
Treasury may direct; and the treasurer
of said branch mint shall have the Gus.
tody of the same, and shall perform the
duties of an assistant treasurer, and for
that purpose shall be subject to all the
prov isions contained in an net entitled
"An act to provide for the better orga-
nizaiion of the Treasury, and for the
collection, safrkeepipg, transfer, and
disbursement Of ,be public revenue"
approved August the sixth, one thousand
eight hundred and iolly-six. which re-
la'es t, the treasurer of the branch mint
at New Orleans. ...
Sec. s. And be a. further enacted,
That, if required by the holder, gold In
grain or Jumps shall be refined, assayed,
cast into bars or ingols, and stamped in
said branch mint, OF in the mint Of the
United States, or any of its branches,
in such manner as may indicate the val.
he and fneness Of the bar or ingot,
which shall be paid for by the owner or
holder of said bullion, at such rates and
charges, and under such regulations. as
the Director of the Mint, under the con-
troll Of the Secretary Of the Treasury,
may from time 10 time establish.
Sec. 9. And b. IL Jvriher enacted.
That so soon as the said baaas4~mIht is
established in the state of California.
and public no'ice shall be given thereof
in the mode 10 be designated by the
Secretary ofthe Treasury, iheuSo much
of the act making appropriations for the
civil and diplomatic expenses of the
government Tor the year ending thir,ieth
Jure, eighteen hundred and fifty. one,
and for other purposes, as provides for
the appointment of an United States
Assayer, and The contracting for the as.
saying and fixing the value of gold in
grain and humps, and for forming the
same into bars, be. and The whole Of the
clause containing said pro.isicns shall
be hereby repealed.
Sec. 10. And be Il further enacted,
That before the Secretary of the Trea-
sury shall procure or erect the build
ings provided for in the second section
of this act, or commence any operations
under any of the provisions of the same,
at San Francisco, state Of California, it
shall first be his dutyto make contract
or contracts, for the erection Of said
buildings, and procuring the machinery
necessary for the operations Of said mint,
at a sum or sums which shall not, in the
whole, exceed the sum Of three hundred
thousand dollars, which said contract OF
contracts shall be secured by good and
sufficien. securities, to the satisfaction
of the Secretary of the Treasury and
the President of the United States.
Approved, July 8, 1862.
CHAR. LV,-An Act TO amend an Act
entitled can Act for the Punishment
of Crimes in the District Of Colum.
bia"
WAervas, it has been represented thai
so much of the third section Of the act
to which this act is an amendment, as
provides Punishmentfo for the malicious.
y. wilful, Or fraudulent burningo stores
barns, or out-houses not adjoining
dwelling. house, has been construed tc