New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-04

oeoased, or made worse as to the proper
ton of fine gold or fine silver therein con-
tanned; or shall be of less weight or value
| than the same ought to be, pursuant to the
! several acts relative thereto; or if any Of
the weights used at any of the mints or as
| say offices of the United States shall be de-
! faced increased or diminished through the
fault or eonnivance of any of the officers or
| persons Who shall be employed at the said
| mihts or assay offices, with . fraudulent in
| tent; and if any Of the said officers or per-
| sons shall embezzle any Of the metals
| Ahicb shall az any time be committed t.
| their charge for the purpose of being
| coined, or any OF the coins which shall
! be struck or coined at the said mints,
| or any medals, coins, or other moneys of
said nints or assay offices al any time
| committed to their charge, or of which they
| may have assumed The charge, every such
| officer or person who shall commit any or
| either Of the said offenses shall be deemed
| guilty of felony, and shall be imprisoned at
| hard labor for term not less than one
! year nor more than ten years, and shall be
| hned in sum not exceeding ton Thousand
| dollars.
SEC. 60 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 mints in Philadelphia, San
Francisco and New Orleans shall be vacated,
and the assistant treasurer at New York
shall cease to perform the duties of treas
urer OF the assay office. The other officers
and employees OF the minis and assay offices
now appointed shall continue TO hold their
respective offices, they having first given
the necessary bonds, until further appoint
ments may be required, the Director of the
MINT at Philadelphia being st led and act
ing as superintendent thereof. The duties
OF the treasures shall devolve as herein
provided upon the uperinteHdents, and
said treasurers shall act only az assistant
treasurers of the United States; provided,
that the salaries heretofore paid to the
treasurers of the minis at Philadelphia, San
Francisco and New Orleans, acting as assis-
tant treasurers, shall hereafter be paid to
them as assistant treasurers of the United
States and that the salary of the assistant
treasurer at New York shall not be dimin-
lshed by the vacation of his Office as treas
urer OF the assay Office.
SEC. Sc. That the different hints and
assay Offices authorized by this act shall be
known as 1.-The mint of the Urited States at
Philadelphia 1.-The mint of the United
States at San Francisco" "the mint of the
United States at Carson" "the mint Of the
United States at Denver" 1.-THE United
States assay office at New York" and the
United States assay Office at Bose City, Ida
he" the United States assay Office at Char
lotte, North Carolina" and all unexpended
appropriations heretofore authorized by
law tor the use of the mint of the United
States at Philadelphia, the branch mint of
the United States in California, the branch
mint of the United States at Denver, the
United States assay office in New York, the
United States assay office at Charlotte
North Carolina, and the United States assay
office at Boise City, Idaho. are hereby au-
thorized to be transferred for the account
a IIsn If fha it,f;n +ohl ,lnl
located respectively at the places desis
mated by this act.
SEC. 81. That this act shall be known as
the Coinage act OF eighteen hundred and
seventy-three;" and all other acts and parts
OF Scts pertaining TO the minis, assay Off
ces. and coinage OF the United States in
consistent with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed; provided, that this act
shall not be construed 70 affect any act done,
right accrued, or penalty incurred, under
former acts, but every such right is hereby
saved; and all suits and prosecutions for
acts already done in violation of any for
mer act Oh acts OF Congress relating to the
subjects embraced in this act may be be-
gun or proceeded with In like manner az if
this act had not been passed; and all penal
clauses and provisions in existing laws re-
lating to the subjects embraced in this act
shall be deemed applicable thereto; and
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section of IAN act making appropriations
for sundry civil expenses OF the govern
ment for the year ending June thirty eight
teen hundred and seventy-one, aud for
other purposes" approved July fifteen,
eighteen hundred and seventy, as provides
that until after the completion and occupa-
ton Of the branch mint building in San
Francisco, it shall be lawful to exchange,
at any mint or branch mint of the United
States, unrefined or IMPAIRED bullion, when.
ever, In the opinion of the Secretary of the
Treasury, it can be done with advantage TO
the government, is hereby repealed.
Approved February II, 1873.