ges collected from depositors for these operations, and also the proceeds of sale of by-products (spent acids arising from any surplus bullion recovered in parting and refining processes), pursuant to law, so far as may be necessary, to defraying in full the expenses thereof, including labor, material, wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps. But no part of the moneys appropriated for the support of the coinage mints and assay office at New York shall be used to defray the expenses of parting and refining bullion. (30 Stat. 661.) This was a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1898, cited above. Similar provisions were made by Act June 19, 1878, c. 329, § 1, ante, § 6516. See, also, note to said provisions. § 6518. (R. S. § 3547.) Appointment and meeting of assay-commissioners. To secure a due conformity in the gold and silver coins to their respective standards of fineness and weight, the judge of the district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, the Comptroller of the Currency, the assayer of the assay-office at New York, and such other persons as the President shall, from time to time, designate, shall meet as assay-commissioners, at the Mint in Philadelphia, to examine and test, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the fineness and weight of the coins reserved by the several mints for this purpose, on the second Wednesday in February, annually, and may continue their meetings by adjournment, if necessary. If a majority of the commissioners fail to attend at any time appointed for their meeting, the Director of the Mint shall call a meeting of the commissioners at such other time as he may deem convenient. If it appears by such examination and test that these coins do not differ from the standard fineness and weight by a greater quantity than is allowed by law, the trial shall be considered and reported as satisfactory. If, however, any greater deviation from the legal standard or weight appears, this fact shall be certified to the President; and if, on a view of the circumstances of the case, he shall so decide, the officers implicated in the error shall be thenceforward disqualified from holding their respective offices. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 48, 17 Stat. 432. § 6519. (R. S. § 3548, as amended, Act March 4, 1911, c. 268, § 1.) Standard troy pound of Bureau of Standards to be standard for regulation of coinage. For the purpose of securing a due conformity in weight of the coins of the United States to the provisions of the laws relating to coinage, the standard troy pound of the Bureau of Standards of the United States shall be the standard troy pound of the Mint of the United States, conformably to which the coinage thereof shall be regulated. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 49, 17 Stat. 432. Act March 4, 1911, c. 268, § 1, 36 Stat. 1354. This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, made the brass troy pound weight, procured at London, and in the custody of the mint at Philadelphia, the standard troy pound of the mint, and R. S. § 3549, provided for procuring for each mint and assay-office a series of standard weights corresponding to said standard troy pound. Both sections were amended by substituting for said standard troy pound and weights corresponding thereto the standard troy pound of the Bureau of Standards and weights corresponding to it, making the sections read as set forth here, by Act March 4, 1911, c. 268, § 1, cited above. § 6520. (R. S. § 3549, as amended, Act March 4, 1911, c. 268, § 2.) Standard weights for mints and assay-offices. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Mint to procure for each mint and assay office, to be kept safely thereat, a series of standard weights corresponding to the standard troy pound of the Bureau of Standards of the United States, consisting of a onepound weight and the requisite subdivisions and multiples thereof, from the hundredths part of a grain to twenty-five pounds. The troy weight ordinarily employed in the transactions of such mints and assay offices shall be regulated according to the above standards at least once 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 annually, in the presence of the assay commissioners, at the time of the annual examination and test of coins. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 50, 17 Stat. 432. Act March 4, 1911, c. 268, § 2, 36 Stat. 1354. See note to R. S. § 3549, ante, § 6519. § 6521. (R. S. § 3550.) Yearly destruction of obverse workingdies. The obverse working-dies at each mint shall, at the end of each calendar year, be defaced and destroyed by the coiner in the presence of the superintendent and assayer. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 51, 17 Stat. 432. The positions of coiner and melter and refiner of all mints, and the melter and refiner in the assay office at New York, were abolished, and their duties cast upon the superintendent, by Act Aug. 23, 1912, c. 350, § 1, ante, § 6432. § 6522. (R. S. § 3551.) National and other medals may be struck at Mint at Philadelphia. Dies of a 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 Director of the Mint, may prescribe. Such work shall not, however, interfere with the regular coinage operations, and no private medal dies shall be prepared at any mint, or the machinery or apparatus thereof be used for that purpose. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 52, 17 Stat. 432. See note to R. S. § 3550, ante, § 6521. § 6523. (R. S. § 3552.) Money arising from charges and deductions to be covered into Treasury. The moneys arising from all charges and deductions on and from gold and silver bullion and the manufacture of medals, and from all other sources, except as provided by this Title, shall, from time to time, be covered into the Treasury, and no part of such deductions or medal charges, or profit on silver or minor coinage, shall be expended in salaries or wages. All expenditures of the mints and as(2929) COMP.ST.'13-184 say-offices, not herein otherwise provided for, shall be paid from appropriations made by law on estimates furnished by the Secretary of the Treasury. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 53, 17 Stat. 432. § 6524. (R. S. § 3553.) Business of assay-office at New York. The business of the United States assay-office at New York shall be in all respects similar to that of the mints, except that bars only and not coin, shall be manufactured therein; and no metals shall be purchased for minor coinage. All bullion intended by the depositor 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 the expense of the contingent fund of the Mint, and shall be there coined, and the proceeds returned to the assayoffice. 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. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 54, 17 Stat. 433. § 6525. (Act June 22, 1874, c. 419.) Transfer of gold mint bars from New York assay-office to assistant treasurer's office; redemption of coin certificates or exchange for gold coins. The Secretary of the Treasury may, from time to time, transfer to the office of the Assistant Treasurer at New York from the bullion fund of the assay office at New York, refined gold bars bearing the United States stamp of fineness, weight and value, or bars from any melt of foreign gold coin or bullion of standard equal to or above that of the United States and may apply the same to the redemption of coin certificates or in exchange for gold coins at not less than par and not less than the market value subject to such regulations as he may prescribe. (18 Stat. 202.) This was an act entitled "An act authorizing the transfer of gold mint bars from the bullion fund of the assay-office New York to the Assistant Treasurer at New York." § 6526. (R. S. § 3554.) Appointment of officers at New York. The officers of the assay-office at New York shall be a superintendent, an assayer, and a melter and refiner; each of whom shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 54, 17 Stat. 433. The positions of coiner and melter and refiner of all mints, and the melter and refiner in the assay-office at New York, were abolished, and their duties cast on the superintendent, by Act Aug. 23, 1912, c. 350, § 1, ante, § 6432. § 6527. (R. S. § 3555.) Duties, etc., of officers at New York. The duties of the superintendent, the assayer, and the melter and refiner of the assay-office at New York shall correspond to those of superintendents, assayers, and melters and refiners of mints; and all the provisions of this Title relating to mints and their officers, the duties and responsibilities of such officers, and others employed therein, the oaths to be taken, and the bonds and sureties to be given by them, shall extend, as far as the same may be applicable, to the assayoffice at New York, and to its officers, clerks and employés. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 55, 17 Stat. 433. § 6528. (R. S. § 3556.) Salaries of officers at New York. The officers of the assay-office at New York shall be entitled to the following salaries: First. The superintendent, to four thousand five hundred dollars a year. Second. The assayer, to three thousand dollars a year. Third. The melter and refiner, to three thousand dollars. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 56, 17 Stat. 433. § 6529. (R. S. § 3557.) Appointment and salaries of assistants and employés at New York. The appointment and compensation of assistants, clerks, and workmen in the assay-office at New York shall be regulated in the same manner as is prescribed in regard to mints. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 56, 17 Stat. 433. All assistants and employés of the mints and assay-offices were to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, by Act Aug. 23, 1912, c. 350, § 1, ante, § 6432. § 6530. (R. S. § 3558.) Business of mint at Denver and of assay offices at Boise City and Charlotte. The business of the mint of the United States at Denver, while conducted as an assay-office, that of the United States assay-office at Boise City, and that of any other assay-offices hereafter established, shall be confined to the receipt of gold and silver bullion, for melting and assaying, to be returned to depositors of the same, in bars, with the weight and fineness stamped thereon. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 57, 17 Stat. 433. So much of this section and of R. S. §§ 3559-3561, post, §§ 6531–6533, as related to the mint at Denver, was repealed by Act Feb. 20, 1895, c. 105, § 2, ante, § 6421. See, also, notes to R. S. § 3495, ante, § 6416. § 6531. (R. S. § 3559.) Appointment of officers at Denver, Boise City, and Charlotte. The officers of the assay-offices embraced by the preceding section shall be, when their respective services are required, an assayer and a melter; each of whom shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Their salaries shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars a year each. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 57, 17 Stat. 433. The preceding section of the Revised Statutes, R. S. § 5558, mentioned in this section, is set forth ante, § 6530. See note to said section, ante, § 6530, as to repeal of so much of this section as related to the mint at Denver. Appropriations for the assay-offices are made in the annual legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts. The provisions for the fiscal year 1914, which omit the appropriation made by previous acts for the assay-office at Charlotte, N. C., were by Act March 4, 1913, c. 142, § 1, 37 Stat. 762, 763. § 6532. (R. S. § 3560.) Powers and duties of assayers at assayoffices; compensation of employés. The assayer at each of the assay-offices embraced by section thirty-five hundred and fifty-eight, shall have general charge of the office; and may employ, under the direction of the Director of the Mint, such, clerks, workmen, and laborers as may be authorized therefor by law; and shall discharge the duties of disbursing agent for the expenses of the office under his charge. The salaries paid to clerks shall not exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars a year each. Workmen and laborers shall receive such wages as are customary according to their respective stations and occupations. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, §§ 57, 58, 17 Stat. 433. R. S. § 3558, mentioned in this section, is set forth ante, § 6530. See note to said section, ante, § 6530, as to repeal of so much of this section as related to the mint at Denver. § 6533. (R. S. § 3561, as amended, Act Feb. 18, 1875, c. 80, § 1, and Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1.) Bond and oath of officers and clerks. Each officer and clerk appointed at either of the assay-offices embraced by section thirty-five hundred and fifty-eight shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take an oath pursuant to the provisions of Title XIX, "Provisions applicable to several classes of officers," and shall give a bond to the United States, with one or more sureties, satisfactory to the Director of the Mint or to one of the judges of the supreme court of the State or Territory in which the office to which he is appointed is located, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 58, 17 Stat. 433. Act Feb. 18, 1875, c. 80, § 1, 18 Stat. 319. Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 249. This section was amended, by the correction of errors therein, to read as set forth here, by Act Feb. 18, 1875, c. 80, § 1, and Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, 1, cited above. See note to R. S. § 3558, ante, § 6530, as to repeal of so much of this section as related to the mint at Denver. The oaths and bonds of officers and clerks of the mints were prescribed by R. S. §§ 3500, 3501, ante, §§ 6437, 6438. § 6534. (R. S. § 3562.) Laws relating to mints extended to assayoffices. All provisions of law for the regulation of mints, the government of officers and persons employed therein, and for the punishment of all offenses connected with mints or coinage, shall extend to all assay-offices, as far as applicable. Act Feb. 12, 1873, c. 131, § 60, 17 Stat. 434. § 6535. (R. S. § 3563.) Decimal system established. The money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units, dimes or tenths, cents, or hundredths, and mills or thousandths, a dime being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, a mill the thousandth part of a dollar; and all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the courts shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation. Act April 2, 1792, c. 16, § 20, 1 Stat. 250. |