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by repealed.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker

of the Houfe of Reprefentatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.
APPROVED, January fourteenth, 1793:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER III.

An Act to provide for the Allowance of Interest
on the Sum ordered to be paid by the Refolve
of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September,
one thousand feven hundred and eighty-five, as
an Indemnity to the Perfons therein named.
(PRIVATE.)

CHAPTER IV.

An Act to continue in Force for a limited Time, and to amend the Act, intitled "An Act providing the Means of Intercourse between the United States, and Foreign Nations.

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and foreign nations," which would expire at the end of the prefent feffion of Congrefs, be, and the fame hereby is, together with this act, continued in force for the fpace of one year, from the paffing of this act, and from thence, until the end of the feffion of Congress then, or next thereafter holden, and no longer.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cafes, where any fum or fums of money when fet- have iffued, or fhall hereafter iffue, from the Treasury, for the purposes of intercourse or treaty, with foreign nations, in pursuance of any law, the President shall be, and he hereby is authorized to cause the fame to be duly fettled annually with the accounting officers of the Treasury, in manner following, that is to fay; by causing the fame to be accounted for, fpecifically, in all inftances, wherein the expenditure thereof may, in his judgment, be made public; and by making a certificate or certificates, or caufing the Secretary of State to make a certificate or certificates of the amount of fuch expenditures, as he may think it advisable not to fpecify; and every fuch certificate shall be deemed a fufficient voucher for the fum or fums therein expreffed to have been expended.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker

of the House of Reprefentatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United

States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, February ninth, 1793:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER V.

An Act regulating Foreign Coins, and for other

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congrefs affembled, Rates of foThat from and after the first day of July next, ftablished. foreign gold and filver coins fhall pafs current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands, at the feveral and respective rates following, and not otherwise, viz. The gold coins of Great-Britain and Portugal, of their prefent ftandard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-feven grains of the actual weight thereof; the gold coins of France, Spain and the dominions of Spain, of their. present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty feven grains and two fifths of a grain, of the actual weight thereof. Spanish milled dollars, at the rate of one hundred cents for each dollar, the actual weight whereof shall not be less than feventeen penny weights and feven grains; and in proportion for the parts of a dollar. Crowns of France, at the rate of one hundred and ten cents, for each crown, the actual weight whereof, shall not be less than eighteen penny weights and feventeen grains, and in proportion for the parts of a crown. But no foreign coin that may have been, or fhall be iffued fubfequent to the first day of January, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-two, fhall be a tender, as aforefaid, until famples thereof fhall have been found, by affay, at the mint of the United States, to be conformable to the refVOL. II.

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Sec. 2. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That at the expiration of three next enfuing the time when the coinage of gold and filver, agreeably to the act, intitled, " An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States," fhall commence at the mint of the United States, (which time shall be announced by the proclamation of the President of the United States) all foreign gold coins, and all foreign filver coins, except Spanish milled dollars and parts of fuch dollars, fhall cease to be a legal tender, as aforefaid.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all reign coins foreign gold and filver coins, (except Spanish milled dollars, and parts of fuch dollars) which fhall be received in payment for monies due to the United States, after the faid time, when the coining of gold and filver coins fhall begin at the mint of the United States, fhall, previously to their being iffued in circulation, be coined anew, in conformity to the act, intitled "An act establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States."

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of July next, the fifty-fifth fection of the act, intitled, " An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties impofed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States," which afcertains the rates at which foreign gold and filver coins fhall be received for the duties and fees to be collected in virtue of the said act, be, and the fame is hereby repealed.id.ches of of game

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Aay of affay, provided to be made by the act, intitled, "An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States," fhall commence in the manner as by the faid act is prefcribed, on the fecond Monday of February, annually, any thing in the faid act to the contrary notwithstanding.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, February ninth, 1793:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER VI.

An Act relative to Claims against the United States, not barred by any Act of Limitation, and which have not been already adjusted.

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Sec. 1.DE it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United Limitation States of America in Congrefs affembled, That of certain all claims upon the United States, for fervices or fupplies, or for other caufe, matter or thing, to ft May, furnished or done, previous to the fourth day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-nine, whether founded upon certificates, or, other written documents from public offi cers, or otherwife, which have not already been barred by any act of limitation, and which fhall not be prefented at the treasury,

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