The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-03-25

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 u term not less than one year nor more than
ten years, and shall be fined In sum not ex-
ceeding ten thousand d ars.
SEC 65. That this act shall take effect on the
first day of April, eighteen hundred ana sew
enty-three, when the offices of the treasurer of
the minis in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and
New Orleans shall be vacated, and the assist mt
treasurer a New York shall cease 10 perform
the duties of treasurer of the assay Office. The
other officers and employees of the minis and
assay-ofiices now appointed shall continue 10
hold their respective offices, they having first
gwen th nect sBry bonds, until further appoint
mens may be required, the Director of the Mint
at Philadelphia being styled and acting as SUI
perintendent thereof The duties OF the treasur.
et shall devolye as herein provided upon the SUI
perintendents, and said treasurers shall act only
as assistant treasurers of the United States:
Pr0Dtded, That the salaries heretofore paid to
the treasurers of the minis at Philadelphia, San
Francisco, and New Orleans, acting as assistant
treasurers, shall hereafter be paid to them as
"as assistant treasurers of the United States,n
and that the salary of the assistant treasurer at
New York shall not be diminished by the vaca-
tiou of his Office as treasurer of the assay-oice
SEC 66 That the different minte apdl as.
ay-ofIices authorized by this act shall be known
rs the mint OF tho United states OF Philadel-
phia," "the mint of the United States at San
frarc,sco.n "the mint of the United States at
Carson,n the mint of the United States at Dem
YER" THE United States assay-office at New
York; and 1.-THE United States assay-office at
Boise city, Idaho"" the United States assay of
flee at Charlotte, North Carolina" and all unex-
pended appropriation heretofore authorized by
law for 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 as
say office in New York, the United States assay.
office at Charlotte, North Carolina, and the
United States assay-oflice at Boise city, Idaho
are he reby authorized to be transferred for the
account and use of the institutions established
and located respectively at the places designated
by this act
SDc. 67. That this act shall be known as the
+" Coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy
three y and all other acts and parts of acts per-
tanning to the mints, assay-of1ices, and coinage
OF the United States inconsistent with the provi-
slons OF this act are hereby repealed Provided,
That this act shall not be construed to affect any
act done, right accrued, or penalty incurred, un-
der former acts, but every such right is hereby
saved; and all suits and prosecutions for acts
already done in violation of any former act or
acts of Congress relating to the subjects en-
braced in this act may be begun or proceeded
with in like manner as il this had not been
passed; and all penal clauses and provisions in
existing laws relating to the sub.
le a - embraced in this act shall be
tier, That so much of the first section of Gan
act making appropriations for sundry civil ex.
penses OF the goyernmeE ut for the year ending
June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy one,
md for other purposes" approved July fifteen,
eighteen hundred and seventy, as provides that
until after The completion and occupation of the
branch-mint building in San Francisco, it shall
De law1nl to exchange, at auy mint or branch
mint OF the United State, unrefined or ur parted
bullion, weenever, in the opinion of the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, it can be done with advan-
tage to the government is hereby repealed
Approved, February ~, 1873.