Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-05

| IN Philadelphia, to examine and test, In the
|! presence of the Director of the Mint the fine
ness and weight of the coins reserved. by the
several minis for this purpose, on the second
| Wednesday in February, annually, and may
continue their meeting by adjournment, if ne
cessary; if a majority of the commissioners shall
| fall to attend at any time appointed for their
meeting, the Director of the Mint shall call q
meeting of the commissioners at such other time
| as he may deem convenient; and if it shall ap-
pear by such examination and test that these
coins do not differ from the standard fneness
and weight dy greater quantity. thac is allow
ed by law, the trial shall be considered and re-
ported as satisfactory; bat if any greater devia-
ton from the legal standard or weight shall APP
pear, the fact shall be certified to the President
of the United States; and if on view of the cir
cumstances of the case, he shall decide the Of
fcer or officers implicated in the error shall be
| thenceforward disqualified from holding their
respective Offices
Sec. 49, That for the purpose of securing a
due conformity in weight of the coins of the
United States to the provisions of this act, the
brass troy pound weight procured by the min
lister of the United States at London, in the
year eighteen hundred and twenty seven, for
the use of the mint and now in the custody of
the mint at Philadelphia, shall be the standard
troy pound of the mint of the United States,
conformably to which the coinage thereof shall
Sec. SO. That it shall be the duty of the Di-
rector ofthe mint to procure for each mint and
assay Office, to be kept safely thereat, series of
standard weights corresponding to the aforesaid
troy pound, consisting: Of a one pound weight
and the requisite subdivisions and multiples
thereof, from the hundredth part of grain to
twenty five pounds; and the troy weights or
dinariy employed in the transactions of such
minis and assay offices shall be regulated accord
ing to the above standards at least enece in every
year, under the inspection of the superintendent
and assayer; and the accuracy of those used at
the mint at Philadelphia shall be tested annual
ly in the presence OF the assay commissioners at
the time of the annual examination and test of
coins, h-rr lr#
Sec. 81. That the diverse working dies at each
mint shall. at the end of each calendar year, be
defaced and destroyed by the coiner in the pres
ence of the superintendent and assayer.
Sec. a. That dies of national character may
be executed by the engraver and national and
other medals struck by the coiner of the mint
at Philadelphia under such regulations as the
superintendent with the approval of the Direc-
tor of the Mint may prescribe: Provided, That
such work shall not interfere with the regular
coinage operations and that no private medal
dies shall be prepared at said mint or the ma
chinery or apparatus thereof be used for that
purpose.
Sec. So That the money arising from all
charges and duductions on and from gold and
silver bullion and the manufacture of medals,
and from all other sources, except as hereinbe-
fore provided, shall from time to time be cover
part of such deductions or medal charges, or
profit on silver or minor coinage shall be eX-
pended in salaries or wages; but all expendi-
lures or the minis and assay offices not herein
otherwise provided for, shall be part from APP
preparations made by law on estimates furnished
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 81 That the officers of the United States
assay Office at New York shall be superintend-
ent, an assayer and melter and refiner who
shall be appointed by the President, by and
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business of said assay office shall be in all re-
spects similar to that of the mint, except that
bars only and not coin shall be manufactured
therein and 10 metals shall be purchased for |
postor to be converted into coins of the United |
States, and silver bullion purchased for coinage
when assayed, parted and refined, and its net |
value certified. shall be transferred to the mint |
at Philadelphia, under such directions as shall |
be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, at |
and shall be there coined, and the proceeds re- |
turned to the assay office. And the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make |
the necessary arrangements for the adjustment |
of the accounts upon such transfers between the |
respective offices.
Sec So. That the doties CT the superintendent, |
assayer, and melter and refner of said office |
shall correspond to those of superintendent, |
assayers, and meters and refners of minis and |
all parts of this act relating to minis and their
officers, the duties and responsibilities of such
officers and others employed therein, the oath to
be taken and the bonds and sureties to be given
by them, (as far as the same may be applicable
shall extend to the assay office at New York, and |
10 its officers, assistants, clerks, workmen and
others employ ed therein.
Sec. Sc. That there shall be allowed to the |
officers of the assay office at New York city the |
following salaries per annum:
To the superintendent four thousand five /
hundred dollars; to the assayer and to the melt |
er and refner each, three thousand dollars; and |
.he salaries of assistants and clerks, and wages
20 workmen and their manner of appointments, |
shall be determined ana regulated as herein d.
rected in regard to minis.
Sec. 81 That the business of the branch mint |
1t Denver, while conducted as an assay Office
md of the assay office at Boise city, Idaho, and |
Ill other assay offices hereafter to be established
bullion for melting and assaying, to be returned |
10 the depositors of the same in bars, with the |
weight and fneIess stamped thereon and the |
officers of assay Office, when their services are
necessary, shall consist of an asSayer, who shall
have charge thereof and melter to be appoint
ed by the President by and with the advice and |
consent of the Senate; and the assayer may en-
ploy as many clerks, workmen and laborers,
under the direction of the Director of the Mint,
as may be provided for by law: The salaries of
thousand five hundred dollars to the assayer and
meter, one thousand eight hundred dollars
each to the clerks, and the workmen and labor
ers shall receive such wages as are customary.
according to their respective stations and occu-
pations.
Sec. IS. That each officer and clerk to be ap-
pointed at such assay offices, before entering
upon the execution of his Office, shall take an
oath or affirmation before some Judge of the
United States. or of the supreme court as pre-
scribed by the act of July second, eighteen hun
dred and sixty two, and each become bound to
the United States of America, with one or more
suretes to the satisfaction OF the Director of the
Mint or Of one of the judges of the.supreme court
Of the State or Territory in which the same may
be located, and of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, conditioned for the faithful performance
Of the duties of their offices and the said assay
ers shall discharge the duties of disbursing
agents for the payment or the expenses of their
respective assay Offices.
Sec. SO. That the general direction of the bus
mess of assay offices of the United States shall be
under the control and regulation of the Direc-
sor of the Mint, subject to the appreciation of the
Secretary of the Treasury; and for that purpose
It shall be the duty of the said Director to pre-