Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-06
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty
lJ e. - Second Congress. -. =
.sg -.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 81


Sec. 81, That if any person or persons shall
procure to be falsely made. forged, or counter
feited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely maxi
ing, forging, or counterfeiting any coin or bars
in resemblance or similitude of the gold or
silver coins or bars which have been, or here
after may be, coined or stamped at the mints
and essay offices Of the United States, or in re-
blence or smilitude of any foreign gold or silver
coin which by law is, or hereafter may be made,
current in the United States or are in actual use
and circulation az money within the United
attempt to pass, utter publish, or bring into the
United States from any foreign place, or have
in his possession, any such false, forged, or
counterfeited coin or bars, knowing the some to
be false, forged, or counterfeted, every person
so offending shall be deemed guilty, of felony,
and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished
by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars. and
by imprisonment and confinement at hard Ia
Dor not exceeding ten years, according to the
aggravation of the ofense. f.I--7 Is..5.5r 81 E.
Sec. 62. That if any person or persons shall
falsely make, forge, or ceunterfeit, or cause. or
procure to be falsely made, forged or counter
feted, or willingly aid or assist in falsely maxi
ing, forging or counterfeiting any coin in the
resemblance or similitude of any of the minor
coinage which has been or may hereafter be
cioned at the minis of the United Statos; or
shall pass, utter, publishor sell, or bring into
the United States from any foreign place, or
have in his possession, any such false, forged or
counterfeited coin, with intent to defraud any
body polite or corporation, or any person or
persons whatsoever, every person 50 oisding
shall be deemed guilty Of felony, and seall, on
conviction thereof, be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars and by imprison-
ment and confinement at hard labor not OK
ceeding three years.
Sec. 6S. That if ony person shall fraudulent
ly, by any art, way or means whatsoever. de-
face, mutilate impoir diminish, falsify, scale or
tighten the gold or silver coins which have been,
or which shall hereafter be, coined at the minis
of the United States, or any foreign gold or
silver coins which are by law made current, or
are in actual use and circulation as money with
in the United States, every person SO offending
shall be deemed guilty of high misdemanor,
and shall be imprisoned not exceeding tive
years. and fined not exceeding two thousand
dollars.
Sec, GA. That if any of the gold or silver coins
-whice shall be struck or coined at any of the
minis Of the United States shall be debased,. or
mhde worse as to the proportion of fine gold or
fine silver therein contained; or shall be of less
weight or value than the same ought to be, pur-
any of the weights used at any of the minis or
assay offices of the United States shall be de-
faced, increased, or diminished thorugh tho
faul or conivance of any of the officers or per-
sons who shah be employed at the said minis or
assay offices, with fraudulent intent; and if any
any of the metals which shall at any time be
committed to their charge for the purpose of
being coined, or any of the coins, or other
moneys of said minis or assay offices at any time
may have assumed the charge, every such Of
fcer or person who shall commit any or either
of the said offenses shall be deemed guilty or
felony, and shall be imprisoned at hard labor
for term not less than one nor more than ten
years, and shall be fined in sum not exceeding
ten thousand dollars.
Sec Is. That this act shall take effect on the
first day of April, eighteen hundred and seven.
ty three when the Offices of the treasurer of the
minis in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New
treasurer at New York shall cease to perform
the duties of treasurer of the assay Office. The
other officers and employees of the minis and
assay offices not appointed shall continue to
hold their respective offices, they having first
pEna may Be required, the Director Of
tbe Mint at PHILADELPHIA being styled and acting
as s1perintandent thereof. The duties of the
treasurers shall deyolve as herein provided
upon the superintendent, and said treasurers
ed States: Provided, That the salaries hereto
fore paid to the treasurers of the minis at Phia-
delphia, San francisco, and New Orleans,
acting as ass slant treasurers shall hereafter be
paid to them salary as assistant treasurers OF
the United States,n aud that the salary of the
assistant treasurer at New York shall not be
diminished by the vacation of his Office of
treasurer of the assay Office fEe iIiT a1a-r -fl
Sec. &c. That the different minis and assay
Offices authorized by this act shall be known as
18th. mint of the United States at Philadel-
phia," 1.-THE minis of the United States at San
Francisco, y 'the minis of the United States at
Carson ''the mint of the United States at
Denver" ''the United States assay Office at
New York" and the United States assay Office
fofice at Charlotte, North Carolina;'' and ali
unexpended appropriations heretofore author
| lied By law for the use of the mint of the Uni
ted States at Philadelphia, the branch mint Of
mint of the United States at Denver, the Uni
| ted States assay Office in New York, the United
States assay-office at Boise city, Idaho, are