The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-24

guilty of felony and shall be imprisoned at hard la
Dor Tor a term not less than year nor more than
ten years. and shall be fined i'll sum not exceeding
ten thousand dollars.
SEC. IS. That this act shall take effect on the first
day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy three.
when the offices of the treasurer of the minis in
philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans sbail
be vacated, ami the assistant treasurer at New VI
shall cease to perform tle duties OF treasurer f IN
assay Office The olher offices and emnovsa. ~ NV. INC
mints ind assay-ofices now appointed shall cont
e U t oees they having first Civ
may be required, the Director Of the Nnt at pS;l
pgns styiei and acting as superintendent
as herein provided upon the sn1mr;n, s,ii ue'oiVe
say shall act only as ASSISTANT
S b, sao Uned state rovided That the sairies
PAU 70 them as assistant treas,res of ,b TT;. o
anu that the salary of the assistant treas1r
ca+i a, New OK shall net be diminished by the va
SN VI VI us once as treasur of the assay-ofice
Pee. 81 Thai the Inherent minis and AZ av-otfoos
f ~. M by this act shall be kno as sslhe mini
the 'Ts n Hnea States at Philadelphia he mint Of
Ie United States at Carson "the mint of tbe IIrt
Gu States at Denver, the United States assayotice
al New York., and the United States ot
Boise city, Idaho" 'the United States ~, ,S
at Charlotte North Carolina; !" and ali uneS5ende5
appropriations s heretofore authorized by law or the
kna, the branch mint of the United States in Cal
LORNA, The branch mint of the Unitel States at
Sew WI !he ~ United States States assay-ofice in
a nork, the United States assay-ofiice at Char
iasCe, Nofth Carolina and the United States asSav
pice at Boise city, 1daho hereby authori1ed ~
W ferled fol- the account and nse nf az ~
siltutlons established and located % ~
places designated bv this act. -'eis d. lie
oEo. o. mat this act shall be known os +ho oc.
aye act OF 1875; and all other acts and part Soill
PSi'anhg 10 he mints assay-ufiices and o; Va ac.2
me United states inconsistent with tbe uage u
Cns acI are hereby repealed Prop;Ged 1ht y, OF
act shali not be construed te affect anv at .iils
rlghG accrued or penalty incurred unyia az uone,
acts, but every such light is hereby saved former
suts ana prosecutions Tor acts already dons -; u an
ton OF any olmer act acts OF ConoraSs IL rioa-
TO the subjects embraced in this act NAV hn eating
or proceeded With in like manner as If iii; o pegun
not been passed; and all penal clauses an5 acC mad
onS Ill existing laws relating 20 the subiecis ptovs
ed In this acl shall be deemed apu.ahI IItlprac-
And procided further That SO much Of ,h e eneteto
tion oi An act ma hhakmg appropriations for sundrv
civil expenses OF the government for the wear en;
June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy. eg
for other PURPOSES, approved July IS h anu
dred and seventy, as provides that mil 81 n ~
completion and occupation of the branci, nn l Se
ing in San Francisco it shall be lawful tn xh ouu
at any mint Or branch-mint of The IJn;ted Sttse,
unrehned or impaired bullion, Whenever ;Ee'tes
opinion of the Treasury, it be done win ~ VIC
tage to the government, is hereby repealed "'' an
Approved, February IL, 1873
...- j. G. BLAINE
Speaker OF the house of Representntires
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
Vice-President of tue Unt4etl States and tresdent
IT the Senate. 's'"'e"'
U. s. GRANT