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8 March 1835. each; to two clerks, the sum of twelve hundred dollars each; (a) to the subordinate workmen and servants, not exceeding twenty in number, such wages and allowances as are customary and reasonable, according to their respective stations and occupations. For the branches at Charlotte and Dahlonega, to the superintendents, each the sum of two thousand dollars, who shall respectively discharge the duty of treasurers; to the chief coiners, each the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; to the assayers, melters and refiners, each the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; to the clerks, not exceeding one at each branch, the sum of one thousand dollars; and to the subordinate workmen and servants, not exceeding the number of five at each of the said branches, such wages and allowances shall be paid as are customary and reasonable, according to their respective stations and occupations.

Ibid. 23. Oath of office.

Bonds.

Ibid. 24. Powers of the director of the mint.

Ibid. 25.

50. The officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, before entering upon the duties thereof, shall take an oath or affirmation before some judge of the United States,(b) faithfully and diligently to perform the duties thereof; and shall each become bound to the United States of America, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint and the secretary of the treasury, with condition for the faithful and diligent performance of the duties of their offices.

51. The general direction of the business of the said branches of the mint of the United States shall be under the control and regulation of the director of the mint at Philadelphia, subject to the approbation of the secretary of the treasury; and for that purpose, it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations, and require such returns periodically, and occasionally, as shall appear to him to be neces‐ sary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing the said branches; also for the purpose of discriminating the coin which shall be stamped at each branch, and at the mint itself; also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form and fineness in the coins stamped at each place; and for that purpose, to require the transmission and delivery to him at the mint, from time to time, such parcels of the coinage of each branch as he shall think proper tc be subjected to such assays and tests as he shall direct.

52. All the laws and parts of laws made for the regulation of the mint of the United States, and for the government of the officers and persons employed therein, and for the the mint, &c., to punishment of all offences connected with the mint or coinage of the United States, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be in full force, in relation to each of the branches of the mint by this act established, so far as the same shall be applicable thereto.

Laws regulating apply to the branches.

13 Feb. 1837 1. 5 Stat. 147.

Officers at New
Orleans.

Balaries.

Ibid. 22. Repeal.

27 Feb. 1843 1. 5 Stat. 602.

53. The officers of the branch mint at New Orleans shall be one superintendent, on3 treasurer, one assayer, one melter and refiner, and one coiner; and the officers of the branch mints at Charlotte and Dahlonega severally, shall be one superintendent, who shall also perform the duties of treasurer; one assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter and refiner, (c) and one coiner. And the annual salaries of the said officers shall be as follows: for the branch at New Orleans, to the superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer, the assayer, the melter and refiner, and the coiner, each two thousand dollars: for the branches at Charlotte and Dahlonega, to the superintendent, two thousand dollars; and to the assayer and the coiner, each fifteen hundred dollars.

54. That so much of the act entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," approved the 3d day of March 1835, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

55. That an act passed the 13th day of February 1837, to amend an act entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," passed the 3d day of March Duties of melter 1835, be and it is hereby altered and amended so as to transfer the duties of melter and refiner from the assayer to the coiner at the branches of Dahlonega in Georgia, and of Charlotte in North Carolina, respectively; and that all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this act be and they are hereby repealed.

and refiuer

transferred to coiner at Dah

lonega and Charlotte.

2 April 1844 3 1. 5 Stat. 652.

Before whom

be taken.

56. The oath or affirmation required by the third section of an act passed March 3d 1835, entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," may be taken before any judge of the superior court or of any court of record, in the stato path of office may where the branch of which the person taking said oath is an officer or clerk, is situated 57. That so much of the second section of the act approved March 3d 1835, entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," as vests the appointTreasurers to ap- ment of the clerks of the treasurer in the superintendent of each mint, be and the same point their own is hereby repealed; and that the several treasurers of the United States mint be and they are hereby authorized to appoint their own clerks, subject, however, to the approval of the secretary of the treasury.

3 March 1851. 9 Stat. 647.

clerks.

Subject to approval of secretary.

? July 1852 1. 10 Stat. 11.

58. That a branch of the mint of the United States be established in California, to be located by the secretary of the treasury, for the coinage of gold and silver.

(a) See supra, 15; and infra, 65.

(b) See infra, 56.

(c) See infra, 55.

59. Suitable buildings shall be procured or erected, for carrying on the business of 3 July 1852 ? 2. said branch mint; and the following officers shall be appointed, so soon as the public Appointment of interests may require their services, upon the nomination of the president, [by] and with officers. the advice and consent of the senate, to wit: one superintendent, one treasurer, one assayer, one melter and refiner and one coiner; and the said superintendent shall engage and employ as many clerks, and as many subordinate workmen and servants, as shall be provided for by law. And until the 30th of June 1855, the salaries of said officers and clerks shall be as follows: to the superintendent and to the treasurer, the sum of four Salaries. thousand five hundred dollars each; to the assayer, to the melter and refiner, and to the coiner, the sum of three thousand dollars each; to the clerks, the sum of two thousand dollars each; to the subordinate workmen, such wages and allowances as are customary and reasonable, according to their respective stations and occupations.

Ibid. 23.

60. The officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, before entering upon the duties thereof, shall take an oath or affirmation before some judge of the United States, Outh. or the supreme court of the state of California, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties thereof; and shall each become bound to the United States of America, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint and the secretary of the Bonds. treasury, or the district attorney of the United States for the state of California, with condition for the faithful and diligent performance of their offices.

director of the

61. The general direction of the business of said branch of the mint of the United Ibid. 4. States shall be under the control and regulation of the director of the mint at Philadel- Powers of the phia, subject to the approbation of the secretary of the treasury; and, for that purpose, direct it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations, and require such returns periodically and occasionally, as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing the said branch; also, for the purpose of discriminating the coin which shall be stamped at said branch and at the mint itself; and also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form and fineness in the coins stamped at said branch; and for that purpose, to require the transmission and delivery to him at the mint, from time to time, of such parcels of the coinage of said branch as he shall think proper, to be subjected to such assays and tests as he shall direct.

Ibid. 5.

62. That all the laws and parts of laws now in force for the regulation of the mint of the United States, and for the government of the officers and persons employed therein, Laws regulating and for the punishment of all offences connected with the mint or coinage of the United the mint, &c., to States, shall be and they are hereby declared to be in full force in relation to the branch branch. of the mint by this act established, so far as the same may be applicable thereto.

apply to this

moneys.

63. The said branch mint shall be the place of deposit for the public moneys collected Ibid. 27. in the custom-houses in the state of California, and for such other public moneys as the To be the desecretary of the treasury may direct. And the treasurer of said branch mint shall have pository of public the custody of the same, and shall perform the duties of an assistant treasurer, and for that purpose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an act entitled "An act Duties and liato provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue," approved August the 6th 1846, which relates to the treasurer of the branch mint at New Orleans.

bilities of treasurer.

Ibid. 28.

64. If required by the holder, gold in grain or lumps shall be refined, assayed, cast Into bars or ingots, and stamped in said branch mint, or in the mint of the United States, Gold to be refined or any of its branches, in such manner as may indicate the value and fineness of the and cast into ingots. bar or ingot; which shall be paid for by the owner or holder of said bullion, at such rates and charges, and under such regulations, as the director of the mint, under the Charges. control of the secretary of the treasury, may from time to time establish.

10 Stat. 673.

New Orleans may

65. That the seventh section of the act of 18th January 1837, entitled "An act sup-3 March 1855 ? 23. plementary to an act establishing the mint, and regulating the coins of the United States," be so amended as to extend the allowance for the annual salary of the clerks Pay of clerks at in the branch mint of the United States at New Orleans, to eighteen hundred dollars be increased. each, from and after the first day of July 1854, at the discretion of the officers authorized by law to appoint, with the approbation of the president of the United States.

V. ASSAY OFFICE.

10 Stat. 212.

New York.

66. The secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized and required to establish in 3 March 1855 210. the city of New York an office for the receipt and for the melting, refining, parting and assaying of gold and silver bullion and foreign coin, and for casting the same into bars, Assay office in ingots or disks. The assistant treasurer of the United States in New York shall be treasurer of the said assay office; and the secretary of the treasury shall, with the appro- Officers. bation and consent of the president of the United States, appoint such other officers and clerks, authorize the employment of such assistants, workmen and servants as shall be necessary for the proper conduct and management of the said office and of the business

3 March 1853. pertaining thereto, at such compensation as shall be approved by the president: ProCompensation. vided, That the same shall not exceed that allowed for corresponding services under existing laws relating to the mint of the United States and its branches.

Ibid. 11.

fined.

for to be issued.

To be cast into ingots, &c.

67. The owner or owners of any gold or silver bullion, in dust or otherwise, or of any Bullion may be foreign coin, shall be entitled to deposite the same in the said office, and the treasurer received and re- thereof shall give a receipt, stating the weight and description thereof, in the manner and under the regulations that are or may be provided in like cases or deposites at the mint of the United States with the treasurer thereof. And such bullion shall, without delay, be melted, parted, refined and assayed, and the net value thereof, and of all Certificates there foreign coins deposited in said office, shall be ascertained; and the treasurer shall thereupon forthwith issue his certificate of the net value thereof, payable in coins of the same metal as that deposited, either at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States, in New York, or at the mint of the United States, at the option of the depositor, to be expressed in the certificate; which certificates shall be receivable at any time, within sixty days from the date thereof, in payment of all debts due to the United States at the port of New York, for the full sum therein certified. All gold or silver bullion and foreign coin deposited, melted, parted, refined or assayed as aforesaid, shall, at the option of the depositor, be cast in the said office into bars, ingots or disks, either of pure metal or of standard fineness, (as the owner may prefer) with a stamp thereon of such form and device as shall be prescribed by the secretary of the treasury, accurately designating its weight and fineness: Provided, That no ingot, bar or disk shall be cast of less weight than five ounces, unless the same be of standard fineness, and of either one, two or three ounces in weight. And all gold or silver bullion and foreign coin intended by the depositor to be converted into the coins of the United States, shall, as soon as assayed and its net value certified as above provided, be transferred to the mint of the United States, under such directions as shall be made by the secretary of the treasury, and at the expense of the contingent fund of the mint, and shall there be coined. And the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized, with the approval of the president of the United States, to make the necessary regulations for the adjustment of the accounts between the respective officers, upon the transfer of any bullion or coin between the assay office, the mint, and assistant treasurer in New York.

When to be transferred to the mint for coinage.

Secretary to pre scribe regula

tions.

Ibid. 12.

Powers of direc

68. The operations of melting, parting, refining and assaying in the said office shall be under the general directions of the director of the mint, in subordination to the seetor of the mint. retary of the treasury; and it shall the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations, and to order such tests, as shall be requisite to insure faithfulness, accuracy and uniformity in the operations of the said office.

Ibid. 13.

Laws regulating the mint, &c., to apply to this office.

Ibid. 14.

Charges for refining, &c.

Ibid. 15. Buildings to be procured.

69. The laws of the United States for the government of the mint and its officers in relation to the receipt, payment, custody of deposites and settlement of accounts, the duties and responsibilities of officers and others employed therein, the oath to be taken and the bond and sureties to be given by them, (as far as the same may be applicable) shall extend to the assay office hereby established, and to its officers, assistants, clerks, workmen and others employed therein.

70. The same charges shall be made and demanded at the said assay office for refining, parting, casting into bars, ingots or disks, and for alloy, as are or shall be made and demanded at the mint; (a) and no other charges shall be made to depositors than by law are authorized to be made at the mint. And the amount received from the charges hereby authorized shall be accounted for and appropriated for defraying the contingent expenses of the said office.

71. The secretary of the treasury is authorized to procure, by rent, lease or otherwise, a building or apartments in the city of New York, suitable for the operations of said office, unless he shall be of opinion that suitable apartments in the custom-house in that city may be assigned for this purpose. And he is also hereby authorized and directed And machinery. to procure the necessary machinery and implements for the carrying on the operations and business of the said office.

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I. ADMISSION INTO THE UNION,

Mississippi.

1. Inhabitants of Mississippi to form a state government.

2. Boundaries of the state.

3. To relinquish all claim to the public lands. And provide for their exemption from taxation, &c. And that navigable rivers shall be public highways.

4 Five per cent, of the proceeds of lands for public improvements. Application thereof.

5. Mississippi admitted into the Union.

6. Laws of the United States extended to.

7. Grant of lands for seat of government.

8. Grant for seminary of learning.

9. Payment of three per cent. of proceeds of lands for public Improvements.

10. Legislature may provide for its application.

11. Additional two per cent. relinquished for construction of railroad from Brandon.

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I. ADMISSION INTO THE UNION.

3 Stat. 348.

1. That the inhabitants of the western part of the Mississippi territory be and they 1 March 1817 3 1. hereby are authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper. And the said state when formed, shall Inhabitants of be admitted into the Union upon the same footing with the original states in all respects form a state Mississippi to

whatever.

government

state.

2. The said state shall consist of all the territory included within the following boun- Ibid. 2. daries, to wit: beginning on the river Mississippi, at the point where the southern boun- Boundaries of the dary line of the state of Tennessee strikes the same; thence, east along the said boundary line to the Tennessee river; thence, up the same to the mouth of Bear creek; thence, by a direct line, to the north-west corner of the county of Washington; thence, due south, to the Gulf of Mexico; thence, westwardly, including all the islands within six leagues of the shore, to the most eastern junction of Pearl river with Lake Borgne; thence, up said river, to the thirty-first degree of north latitude; thence, west, along the said degree of latitude, to the Mississippi river; thence, up the same to the beginning.

Ibid. 3 4.

lic lands.

their exemption

&c.

3. The said convention shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that the people inhabiting the said territory do agree and declare To relinquish all that they for ever disclaim all right or title to the waste or unappropriated lands lying claim to the pubwithin the said territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States. And moreover, that each and every tract of land sold And provide for by congress, shall be and remain exempt from any tax laid by the order or under the from taxation, authority of the state, whether for state, county, township, parish or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the respective days of the sales thereof; and that the lands belonging to citizens of the United States, residing without the said state, shall never be taxed higher than the lands belonging to persons residing therein; and that no taxes shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States. And that the river Mississippi and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, And that navigaor into the Gulf of Mexico, shall be common highways, and for ever free as well to the be public highinhabitants of the said state, as to other citizens of the United States, without any tax, ways. duty, impost or toll therefor imposed by the said state.

ble rivers shall

Thid. 23.

lands for public

4. Five per cent. of the net proceeds of the lands lying within the said territory, and which shall be sold by congress from and after the first day of December next, after Five per cent. of deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for making public roads the proceeds of and canals; of which three-fifths shall be applied to those objects within the said state, improvemeuts. under the direction of the legislature thereof, (a) and two-fifths to the making of a road or roads leading to the said state under the direction of congress: Provided, That the Application application of such proceeds shall not be made until after payment is completed of the one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars due to the state of Georgia, in consideration of the cession to the United States; nor until the payment of all the stock

(a) See act 14 March 1826, infra, 10.

thereof.

1 March 1817. which has been or shall be created by the act entitled "An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory," shall be completed: And provided also, That the said five per cent. shall not be calculated on any part of such proceeds as shall be applied to the payment of the one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars due to the state of Georgia, in consideration of the cession to the United States, or in payment of the stock which has or shall be created by the act entitled "An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory."(a)

10 Dec. 1817.

3 Stat. 472.

Mississippi ad

mitted into the Union.

3 April 1518 21. 3 Stat. 413.

20 Feb. 1819 1. 3 Stat. 485.

5. Whereas, in pursuance of an act of congress, passed on the first day of March 1817, entitled "An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," the people of the said territory did, on the 15th day of August, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which constitution and state government so formed, is republican, and in conformity to the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, passed on the 13th day of July 1787: Resolved, That the state of Mississippi shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.

6. All the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said state of Mississippi as elsewhere within the United States.

7. There shall be granted to the state of Mississippi, two entire sections of land, or fractional sections, or quarter-sections, not exceeding the quantity contained in two Grant of lands for entire sections, for a seat of government in the said state; which land shall be located in Beat of government.

Ibid. 22. Grant for semi

nary of learning.

3 May 1822 ? 2. 3 Stat. 674.

one entire tract, at such place as, under the authority of the said state, shall be designated for the seat of government therein, whenever the Indian title shall have been extinguished thereto, and before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding lands belonging to the United States.

8. In addition to the township of land granted for the support of Jefferson College, there shall be granted, in the said state, another township, or a quantity of land equal thereto, to be located in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, which shall be vested in the legislature of the said state, in trust, for the support of a seminary of learn. ing therein; which lands shall be located by the secretary of the treasury of the United States, whenever an extinguishment of Indian title shall be made, for lands, suitable, in his opinion, for that purpose, in the said state. Which grant, hereby provided to be made, shall be considered as made in lieu of a township directed to be reserved by the fifth section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the ascertaining and surveying of the boundary lines fixed by the treaty with the Creek Indians, and for other purposes," passed March 3, 1815; and which reserve of one township, provided to be made by the aforesaid fifth section of said act, shall be offered for sale, in the same manner as the other public lands in the same district.

9. The secretary of the treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices in the state of Mississippi shall be Payment of three settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United per cent, of proceeds of lands for States, lying within the state of Mississippi, which, since the first day of December 1817, public improve have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses

ments.

14 March 1826 21. 4 Stat. 149.

Legislature may provide for its application.

4 Sept. 1841 2 16. 5 Stat. 457.

incident to the same, to such person or persons as may or shall be authorized by the legislature of the said state of Mississippi to receive the same. Which sum or sums, thus paid, shall be applied to making public roads and canals within the said state, according to the provisions on this subject contained in the act entitled "An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," and to no other purpose.

10. Three-fifths of the five per cent. fund, arising from the net proceeds of the sales of public lands, within the state of Mississippi, may be appropriated by the legislature thereof, to the making of public roads and canals, and to the improvement of the navigation of rivers and bays within said state.

11. The two per cent of the net proceeds of the lands sold, or that may hereafter be sold by the United States, in the state of Mississippi, since the first day of December 1817, and by the act entitled "An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such

(a) See act 4 July 1836, to carry into effect in the states of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those states in

regard to the five per cent. fund, and the school reservations 5 Stat. 116. And act 26 February 1845. 5 Stat. 727.

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