Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-25
BY AUTHORITY. Public Acts of the Thirty.Fourth Concres, of the United States.

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 is99' is a''@ e"de@ 1aesday kAe Mird day or Marcl FRANKLIN PIERCE, President JESSE D Rp,cur
 President of the Senate rro te,aDore iii Jannar
 3, 1857, and JAMES NJ. MASON from that lime iii | the close ot the Session. NATHANIEL P. BANKS Jun., Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 AN ACT for the Construction of Waoon Roo,
 from Fort Kearney via the South Pass of the Rock,
 Mountains and Great Salt Lake Valley. to the eas | tern Portion of the State of California and to
 other purposes.
 be It enacted, etc., That the of S30O,O00 O l so much thereof may be necessary be and in same is hereby appropriated out of anv moneys i the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the con structlon ot wagon road from Fort Kearnev in tn Territory of Nebraska, via the South Pass of tn l Rocky Mountains to the eastern boundary of tb State of California near Honey Lake. to be expende under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to contracts to be male by him-said roa fto connect with and form an extension of the roa already authorized from Fort Ridgely the aforesa South Pass.
 $ ?. That the sum of S200OO0 or as much thereo as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby ap prated out of any money in the treasury not other Wise appropriated, for the construction of a wago road from Fl Paso, on the Rio Grande to Fort Yuma at the mouth of the Gila River, to be expended un der the direction of the Secretary of the Interior pur suant to contracts to be made by him
 5. That sum of $50 900 be and the same i hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasu ry not otherwise appropriated for the construction | wagon road from Fort Defiance in the Territory O New Mexico, to the Colorado River, near the mout] | of the Mohava River. ..r
 APPROVED, February IT, 1857.
 AN ACT to increase the Pay of the Officers of tn ! Army.
 | De It enacted etc., That from and after the com mencement of the present fiscal year. the pay of eac commssloned officer of the army, including militar Storekeepers, shall be increased S20 per month anI that the communication price of officers subsistenc, | shall be thirty cents per ration.
 2 That the Secretary of War be authorized ol the recommendation of the council of administration to extend the additional pay herein provided to an, person serving chaplain, at any post of the army | APPROVED. February 2l, 1851.
 AN ACT relating to Foreign Coins and to the Coin
 ago of Gents at the Mint of the United States.
 Be it enacted etc., That the pieces commonly known as the quarter, eighth and sixteenth ot ht l spanish pillar dollar, and of the Mexican dollar shall be receivable at treasury of the United States and its several offices and the several t-oce. and land-otfces, at the rates of valuation Glowing that Is 70 say the fourth of dollar, or piece of tive reals at twenty cents; the eighth of dollar, or piece of one real, at ten cents; and the sixteenth of dol | far, or half real. at five cents.
 | 7. hat the said coins, when received, shal | be lcchncd at the mint And it shall be the duty o | the director of the mint with the approval of tho Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe such regua tl"S as may be necessary and proper, to secure the transmission to the mint for reconage and the return or distribution ot the proceeds thereof, wh deemed eXpedlent and to prescrb such forms of account d, may be appropriate and applicable to the rrcuusan- cea: Piotated, That the eIpcn~es incident to su.f transmission or distribution, and Of rccoinage. shil De charged agaIn>t the account of silver profit loss, and the net profits. if any shall be paid from time totme into the treasury of the United State, 3. That all former acts authorizing the currency of foreign gold yer coins and declaring the | legal tender in payment for debts are hereby re- peaed but shall be the duty of the director of the nlnt to cause assays to be made. from time time of such foreign coins may be known to our com merce, to determine their weight, fneness and value. and to embrace in his annual report q statement of the results thereof.
 | 5 4. That from ana after the passage of this act the standard weight of the cent coined at the mint shall be seventy-twU grains, or three twenteths oi one ounce troy, with greater deviation than four grains in each piece; and said shall be composed of eighty eight per centum of copper and twelve per centum of nickel of such shape and device may be fixed by the director of the mint with the appro- baton of the Secretary of the Treasury and the coin age of the half cent shall cease.
 D. That the treasurer of the mint. under the in- srucon of the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time, purchase from the bullion fund of the mint the materials eSSary for the coinage of such
 
 tive officers of the mint to be manufactured and re- turned in coin. And the laws in force relating to the mint and the coinage of the precious metals, and in regard to the sale and of the copper coins shall far applicable be extended to the coinage herein provided for: Pr0Djed That the net profits ot said coinage. ascertained in like pre>crib- ed in the second section of this shall be transferred to the treasury of the United States.
 6. That t shhll te lawful to pay out the said cent at the mint in exchange for any of the gold and silver coins of the United States. and also in hange for the former copper coins osued and ditsha be law iul to transmit parcels of the said cents. from time to time, to the assistant trra~urer-, depo>taries and other officers of the United States under general re- eulations proposed y the director of the mint, and approved by the Sc retary of the Treasury. for eX- change aforesaid And it shall also be lawful fnr te space of two years from the passage of this act and no longer. to pay out at the mint he cents aore said for the fractional part of Il edoar herenbeforc named at their nomial ue of twenty i've twelve and half and six and a-quarter centS respectively '. That hereafter the director of the mint shall make his annual report 10 the Secretary of the Trea surv up to the 30th of June u each year that tn, same may appear in his annual report to Congress oi the finances