House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 2

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Page 227 - An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States...
Page 6 - ... at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum and to issue bonds...
Page 221 - I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860 : Accounts adjusted.
Page 250 - I have the honor to submit the following: report of the operations of this office during the % fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, so far as pertains to the business of claims under the act of July, 1864 (sec.
Page 79 - ... principal denominations being given. The other sizes are proportional; and, when this is not the case, the deviation is stated. The third column expresses the weight of a single piece in fractions of the troy ounce, carried to the thousandth, and, in a few cases, to the ten-thousandth, of an ounce.
Page 49 - That all former acts authorizing the currency of foreign gold or silver coins, and declaring the same a legal tender in payment for debts, are hereby repealed; but it shall be the duty of the Director of the Mint to cause assays to be made, from time to time, of such foreign coins as may be known to our commerce, to determine their average weight, fineness, and value, and to embrace in his annual report a statement of the results thereof.
Page 51 - Mint, giving priority according to priority of deposite only; and that in the denominations of coin delivered, the treasurer shall comply with the wishes of the depositor, unless when impracticable or inconvenient to do so; in which case, the denominations of coin shall be designated by the Director.
Page 79 - The present price of standard silver is 122£ cents per ounce, at which rate the values in the fifth column of the second table are calculated. In a few cases, where the coins could not be procured, the data are assumed from the legal rates, and so stated.
Page 346 - I am happy to have it in my power to Say that my worthy friend Cap! Lewis is recovering fast, he walked a little to day for the first time, I have discontinued the tent in the hole the ball came out...

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