The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-25
OFFIC IAL.
T Avs OF THE UNITED STATES.


Passed at the Second Session Of the 7hirty-sevent1
Congress- aoAich soas begun and held at the CITY O
Washiuoton, in the District of Columbia, on
Monday, the second day Of December, 4. D. 1861
and ended on Thursday, the 17th day Of July
Pr. A.. d. 1862.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President. HANNIBAL HAM
LIN Vice President, and President of the Sen
ate SOLOMON FOOTE was elected President
of the Senate pro tenspore, on the eighteenth,
day of July, and continued so to act untli Iire
close of the session. GALUsHA A: uho"'
Speaker of the House of Representatives
TooSTINUED FROM OUR LAST
= CHAP. XIV
An Act to authorize the Purshas OF Conn., ana LOT
other Purposes.
Re II enacted by the Senate and House of Re
,,resentatiyes of the United States of America IN
Congress assembled, That the Secretary Oh I1e
Treasury may purchase coin win any Oh lle uonus
or notes of the United States, authorized by law,
at such safes and upon such terms as he may deem
most advantageous to the public interest; and
may issue, under such rules ana regulations as ne
may prescribe certificates of Indebtedness, such
as are authorized by an act entitled IAN act TO
authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
certificates of Indebtedness to public creditors,
approved March first, eighteen hundred and SIX
ty-two to such creditors as may desire to receive
the same, in discharge OF checks drawn by as
bursting officers upon sums placed to their credit
on the books of the Treasurer, upon requlsltlonS
of the proper departments as well as III dlscharge
of audited and settled accounts, as PROVIDED by
said acts. M. A.,
SEC q And be it further enacted, That the
demand notes authorized by the act of July sew
enteenth eighteen hundred and sixty one, and by
the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred
and sixty two shall, in addition to being receiv-
able in paymeht of duties on imports, be receiva-
BILE and shall be lawful money and legal tender
in like manner, ond for the same purposes, and
to the same extent, as the notes authorized by an
act entitled can act to authorize the issue of
United States notes, and for the redemption or
funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt
of the United States" approved February twenty
fifth, eighteen hundred and siXty-two.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
limitation upon temporary deposits of United
States notes with any assistant treasurers or de-
signated depositaries, authorized by the Secretary
of the Treasury to receive such deposits, at five
per cent interest, to twenty-five millions of dol
lars, shall be far modified as to authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury to receive such deposits
to an amount not exceeding fifty millions of dol
lars and that the rates of interest shall be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury not
exceeding the annual rate of five per centum.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted That, in all
cases where the Secretary of the Treasury is au-
thorized by law to reissue notes, he may replace
such as are so mutilated otherwise injured as
to be unfit for use with others of the same char
acter and amount: and such mutilated notes, and
all others which by law are required to be taken
up and not re-issued, shall, when so replaced, or
ken up, be destroyed in such manner ana I'M
der such regulations the Secretary of the Treas
ury may prescribe
ApprOyen, March II, 1867.