The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-02
Sd AILY JOURNAL
OFFICIAL.
LaeCs Passed By the Third Session Of
the Fortieth Congress.
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AN ACT to locate and establish an
ASSAY Office In the Territory of
Idaho. /,
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
limited States of America in Congress
assembled. That a United States as
saw Office be located and established at
Boise CITY. In the Territory of Idaho,
for the assaying of gold and silver.
For the carving on of the BUSH
ness Of said Office the following off,
GERS shall be appointed, as DON as
the public interest shall require their
service, upon the nomination of the
President, by and with the advice and
consent Of the Senate, namely: One
superintendent, One assayer. and M
melter and refner, and two clerks,
and the superintendent may employ
as many subordinate workmen and
laborers, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Treasury. as may be
required. The salaries of the said
officers and clerks shall be as follows:
TO the superintendent, the sum Of
two thousand dollars; to the assayer,
the sum of eighteen hundred dollars;
to the melter and refner; eighteen
hundred dollars; to the clerks, q
eighteen hundred dollars. aud one
sixteen hundred dollars; to the sub
ordinate workmen and laborers such
a and allowances as are custom
airy, according to their respective sta
tons and occupations.
SEC. 2. Aud be it further enacted,
That the officers and clerks to be ap-
pointed under this act, before enter
ing upon the execution oftheir offices,
shall take an oath or afir nation be-
fore some Judge of the United States
or of the supreme court of said Terri
tory. az prescribed by the act of July
second, eighteen hundred and sixty
two, and each become bound to the
United States of America, with one
or more sureties, to the satisfaction
Of the director of the mint or of one
Of the judges of the supreme court of
Idaho Territory and of the Secretary
of the Treasury, with the condition OF
the faithful performance of the du-
ties of their offices.
Sec. 3. And be il further enacted,
That the general direction of the
business of said assay Office of the
United States shall be under the con-
troll and regulation of the director Of
the mint at Philadelphia, subject
to the appreciation of the Secretary;
and for that purpose it shall be
the duty of the said director to pre-
scribe such regulations, and to
require such returns periodically and
occasionally, and to establish such
charges for parting, assaying, melting,
and refining, as shall appear to him
to be necessary for the purpose of
carrying into effect the intention of
this act In establishing said assay
Office.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted,
That said assay Office shall be a place
of deposit for such public moneys as
the Secretary of the Treasury may
said assay Office who shall perform
the duties of treasurer thereof, shall
have the custody of the same, and
also perform the duties of assistant
treasurer; and for that purpose shall
be subject to all the provision con-
tanned in an act [entitledl IAN act to
provide for the better organization of
the treasury, and for the collection,
safe keeping, transfer and disburse-
ment of the public revenue" approx
ed August sixth, eighteen .hundre j
and forty-six, which relates to the
treasury of the branch mint of New
Orleans.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted,
That the superintendent of said assay
Office he authorized, under the direc-
ton of the Secretary of the Treasury,
aud on terms to be prescribed by him,
to issue 10 payment of the gold
dust and bullion deposited for assay
and coinage, or bars, drafts, or GER
tiicates. of deposit, In sums of not
less Tran one hundred dollars, pay
able at the treasury, or any sub-treas-
ury of the United States, to any de-
positOr electing to receive payment IN
that form. -
SEC 6. Aud be it further enacted,
That the sum of seventy-fve thou
sand dollars be, and the same is here
by, appropriated out of any money in
the United States Treasury not other
wise appropriated, to be expended in
the construction of said assay office,
under the direction of the Secretary
of the Treasury; and the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby directed, on
the passage or this act, to order the
im:nediate construction of said assay
office.
SEC. z. And be it further enacted,
That all the laws and parts of laws
now "a force for the regulation of the
United States assay Office at New
York, and for the government of the
officers and persons employed there
in. and for the punishment of all
offences connected with said assay
office, or with the mint Of the United
States, shall be, and they are hereby,
declared to be in full force in relation
to the assay Office by this act located
and established, so far as the same
may be applicable thereto.
AD,rOVed. February 10. 1869.