sand dollars, and twice the amount of the damages sworn to in the affidavit of the person bringing the suit. Act March 2, 1863, c. 67, § 5, 12 Stat. 698. § 6414. (R. S. § 3493.) Rights of persons presenting such suits. The person bringing said suit and prosecuting it to final judgment shall be entitled to receive one-half the amount of such forfeiture, as well as one-half the amount of the damages he shall recover and collect; and the other half thereof shall belong to and be paid over to the United States; and such person shall be entitled to receive to his own use all costs the court may award against the defendant, to be allowed and taxed according to any provision of law or rule of court in force, or that shall be in force in suits between private parties in said court: Provided, That such person shall be liable for all costs incurred by himself in the case, and shall have no claim therefor on the United States. Act March 2, 1863, c. 67, § 6, 12 Stat. 698. § 6415. (R. S. § 3494.) Limitation of suit. Every such suit shall be commenced within six years from the commission of the act, and not afterward. Act March 2, 1863, c. 67, § 7, 12 Stat. 698. (2888) TITLE XXXVII COINAGE This title of the Revised Statutes, "Coinage, Weights and Measures," included, in addition to the sections of the Revised Statutes set forth here, the further sections, §§ 3569 and 3570, thereof, relating to weights and measures. Those sections are transferred to a title inserted as additional to the original titles of the Revised Statutes and designated as Title LVI H, "Weights and Measures," post, §§ 8898-8907, which also contains the statutory provisions subsequent to the Revised Statutes relating to weights and measures. Sec. 6416. Enumeration of mints and assayoffices. 6417. Mint at New Orleans reopened. 6418. Assaying and stamping of bullion at New Orleans mint. 6419. Silver bullion for New Orleans mint. 6420. Coinage of gold and silver at Denver mint. 6421. Officers of Denver mint; salaries; repeal. 6422. Laws applicable to Denver mint. 6423. Officers, clerks, etc., at Denver mint; salaries. 6424. Assay-office at Helena established. 6425. Refining at Helena assay-office authorized; charges. 6426. Assay-office at St. Louis. 6427. Assay-office at Deadwood. 6428. Assay-office at Deadwood, how conducted. 6429. Assay-office at Seattle; officers. 6430. Assay-office at Salt Lake City; officers, etc. 6431. Officers of mints. 6432. Positions of coiner and melter and refiner abolished; employés to be appointed by Secretary of the Treasury. 6433. Superintendents of certain mints to perform duties of treasurer. 6434. Salaries of officers of mints. 6435. Salaries of assistants, clerks, and laborers employed in the mints. 6436. Salaries under Director. 6437. Oath of office of officers, assistants, and clerks. 6438. Bonds of officers, assistants, and clerks. 6439. Who to act in absence of Director, superintendent, or other officer. coins; new designs. 6448. Gold coins of the United States, and their weight. 6449. Coinage of three-dollar and onedollar gold pieces and threecent nickel piece discontinued. 6450. Withdrawal and recoinage. 6451. Recoinage of gold coins. 6452. Silver coins and their weight. 6453. Coinage of standard silver dollars; weight and inscriptions; legal tender; gold certificates not to be paid in silver. 6454. Silver certificates; payment of customs, etc., therewith. 6455. Representation of United States at international monetary conference; appointment of commissioners; compensation and expenses. 6456. Issue of one, two, and five dollar silver certificates. 6457. Standard for gold and silver coins. 6458. Minor coins; their weight and alloy. 6459. Issue of other coins prohibited. 6460. Coinage for foreign countries. 6461. Inscriptions upon coins. 6462. Inscription on certain coins of motto "In God we trust." 6463. Gold and silver bars. 6464. Exchange of gold coins for gold bars. 6465. Coining gold bullion; when deposits may be refused. 6466. Silver bullion may be received for forming into bars. 6467. Weighing bullion and ascertaining its value. 6468. Assay of bullion. 6469. Assayer to report to superintendent quality of bullion assayed. 6470. Charges for converting bullion, etc., into coin. 6471. Repeal of provision for charge for converting bullion into coin. 6472. Assayer to verify calculations of the value of deposits and countersign certificate. 6473. Purchase of bullion for silver coinage; the silver-profit fund. 6474. Purchase of silver bullion, and issue of Treasury notes in payment thereof. 6475. Redemption of Treasury notes; limitation on amount outstanding; legal tender; national bank reserve fund; party of metals. 6476. Coinage of silver dollars; seigniorage. 6477. Determination of quality of bullion; charges and deductions. 6478. Repeal of provisions for purchase of silver bullion; gold and silver as standard money; parity. 6479. Coinage of silver bullion purchased under Act July 14, 1890, c. 708. 6480. Standard unit of value. 6481. Redemption of United States notes and Treasury notes; redemption fund, maintenance; reissue of redeemed United States notes. 6482. Legal-tender quality of silver dollar or other money not affected by act. 6483. Cancellation of Treasury notes upon coinage of silver dollars and issue of silver certificates. 6484. Denominations of silver certificates. 6485. Coinage of silver bullion into subsidiary coins. 6486. Recoinage of uncurrent subsidiary silver coins. 6487. International bi-metallism not to be precluded by act. 6488. Limitation of amount of subsidiary silver coins removed. 6489. United States notes of small denominations to be issued, and equal amount of higher denominations retired, when outstanding silver certificates insufficient. 6490. Paying out silver coins for gold coins authorized. 6491. Exchange of subsidiary coin for lawful money. silver 6492. Exchange of lawful money for subsidiary silver coin. 6493. Free transportation of silver coin. 6494. Purchase of metal for minor coinage; the minor coinage profit fund. 6495. Delivery of minor coins, redemption. 6496. Cleaning, reissue, and recoinage of minor coins. 6497. Transfer of bullion for formation into ingots. 6498. Ingots to be assayed, and receipted for. 6499. Delivery of ingots to coiner for coinage. 6500. Standard of ingots used for coinage. 6501. Preparation and stamping of bars for payment of deposits. 6502. Deviations allowed in adjusting weights of gold coins. 6503. Deviations allowed in adjusting weight of silver coins. 6504. Of minor coins. 6505. Delivery of coins by coiner, and trial of pieces. 6506. Trial-pieces to be sealed up and transmitted quarterly to the Mint at Philadelphia. 6507. Disposals of clippings, etc. 6508. Yearly settlement of accounts of coiner, melter, and refiner. 6509. Allowance for wastage. 6510. Statement of balance-sheet to be forwarded by superintendent to Director of Mint. 6511. Delivery of coin or bars to depositor. 6512. Payment in money to depositors when value ascertained. 6513. Payment for bullion in coin certificates; charges to depositors, how expended. 6514. Repeal of provision for payment for bullion in coin certificates at assay-offices other than the one in New York. 6515. Exchange of unparted bullion for fine bars. 6516. Refining and parting of bullion at mints and New York assay Sec. office; expenses, how defrayed; 6517. Refining and parting of bullion 6519. Standard troy pound of Bureau of Standards to be standard for regulation of coinage. 6520. Standard weights for mints and assay-offices. 6521. Yearly destruction of obverse working-dies. 6522. National and other medals may be struck at Mint at Philadelphia. 6523. Money arising from charges and deductions to be covered into Treasury. 6524. Business of assay-office at New York. 6525. Transfer of gold mint bars from New York assay-office to assistant treasurer's office; redemption of coin certificates or exchange for gold coins. Sec. 6526. Appointment of officers at New York. 6527. Duties, etc., of officers at New York. 6528. Salaries of officers at New York. 6529. Appointment and salaries of assistants and employés at New York. 6530. Business of mint at Denver and of assay-offices at Boise City and Charlotte. 6531. Appointment of officers at Denver, Boise City, and Charlotte. 6532. Powers and duties of assayers at assay-offices; compensation of employés. 6533. Bond and oath of officers and clerks. 6534. Laws relating to mints extended 6535. Decimal system established. 6537. Value of the sovereign or pound sterling. 6538. Recoinage of foreign coins. 6539. Spanish and Mexican coins. 6540. Their transmission for recoinage. § 6416. (R. S. § 3495.) Enumeration of mints and assay-offices. The different mints and assay-offices shall be known asFirst. The mint of the United States at Philadelphia. Second. The mint of the United States at San Francisco. Third. The mint of the United States at New Orleans. Fourth. The mint of the United States at Carson. Fifth. The mint of the United States at Denver. Sixth. The United States assay-office at New York. Seventh. The United States assay-office at Boise City, Idaho. Eighth. The United States assay-office at Charlotte, North Carolina. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 66, 17 Stat. 435. The mint at New Orleans having been closed during the war of the rebellion, its reopening was provided for by Act June 20, 1874, c. 328, § 1, post, § 6417; the assaying and stamping of bullion thereat was authorized by Act Aug. 15, 1876, c. 287, § 1, post, §.6418; and the supplying of said mint with silver bullion for coinage into standard silver dollars and all smaller denominations of silver was authorized by Act March 15, 1898, c. 68, § 1, post, § 6419. Coinage at the Denver mint of gold and silver was authorized, and further provisions, relating to that mint were made, by Act Feb. 20, 1895, c. 105, and Act March 18, 1904, c. 716, § 1, post, §§ 6420-6423. The mints at Carson City and at Denver and the assay-office at Boise City were made depositaries for public moneys by R. S. § 3592, post, § 6579. Additional assay-offices were established as follows: At Helena, Mont., by Act May 12, 1874, c. 168, § 1, post, § 6424; at St. Louis, Mo., by Act Feb. 1, 1881, c. 33, § 1, post, § 6426; at Deadwood, S. D., by Act June 11, 1896, c. 420, § 1, post, § 6427, and Act Feb. 19, 1897, c. 265, § 1, post, § 6428; at Seattle, Wash., by Act May 21, 1898, c. 348, post, § 6429; and at Salt Lake City, Utah, by Act May 30, 1908, c. 223, post, § 6430. The refining and parting of gold and silver for casting it into bars, ingots, or discs, at the Helena assay-office, was authorized by Act March 2, 1895, c. 177, § 1, post, § 6425. The refining and parting of bullion at the mints of the United States and the assay-office at New York were authorized by Act June 19, 1878, c. 329, § 1, and Act July 7, 1898, c. 571, § 1, post, §§ 6516, 6517. The establishment of a mint at Manila, and the coinage of silver and minor coins for use in the Philippine Islands, were authorized, and the laws of the United States relating to mints and coinage, so far as applicable, were extended to the coinage of said Islands, by provisions of Act July 1, 1902, c. 1369, §§ 76-83, Act March 2, 1903, c. 980, ante, §§ 3886-3892. § 6417. (Act June 20, 1874, c. 328, § 1.) opened. Mint at New Orleans re To reopen the branch mint at New Orleans to be conducted hereafter as a mint, subject to the provisions and restrictions of the coinage act of eighteen hundred seventy-three. (18 Stat. 97.) This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1875, cited above. The provisions of Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, mentioned in this provision, were incorporated into R. S. §§ 3495-3562, included in this chapter of the Revised Statutes. The mint at New Orleans was authorized by R. S. § 3495, ante, § 6416. The assaying and stamping of bullion were authorized by Act March 3, 1877, c. 102, § 1, post, § 6418. The Secretary of the Treasury was authorized to supply the mint with silver bullion for the coinage of silver dollars, etc., by Act March 15, 1898, c. 68, § 1, post, § 6419. § 6418. (Act March 3, 1877, c. 102, § 1.) Assaying and stamping of bullion at New Orleans mint. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana : * * And the assaying and stamping of bullion is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of the coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three. (19 Stat. 307.) This was a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1878, cited above. The same provision was made in the similar act for the preceding year, Act Aug. 15, 1876, c. 287, § 1, 19 Stat. 158. The provisions of the Coinage Act of Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, mentioned in this provision, were incorporated into R. S. §§ 3495–3562, included in this chapter of the Revised Statutes. The mint at New Orleans was authorized by R. S. § 3495, ante, § 6416. Its reopening was authorized by Act June 20, 1874, c. 328, § 1, ante, § 6417. The Secretary of the Treasury was authorized to supply the mint with silver bullion for the coinage of silver dollars, etc., by Act March 15, 1898, c. 68, § 1, post, § 6419. An appropriation for an assayer and other officers and workmen, with a provision that the assayer should have general charge of the institution, as under R. S. § 3560, post, § 6532, was made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1914, Act March 4, 1913, c. 142, § 1, 37 Stat. 761. Similar appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1912 and 1913 contained similar provisions. Previous acts provided for a superintendent as well as an assayer and other officers, etc. § 6419. (Act March 15, 1898, c. 68, § 1.) Silver bullion for New Orleans mint. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to supply the mint at New Orleans with silver bullion for conversion into stand |