Silver Regulations of August 17, 1934 |
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acquire and withhold affidavit agency amount of silver application is disapproved approval assay office August 9 coin or currency coin standard silver collector of customs continental United contract deemed deliver silver duplicate copy effectuate the policy executed under oath Executive order export license exportation of silver Federal Reserve bank filed in duplicate FRANKLIN D Gold Reserve Act hereby hereunder incurred or assumed interest in silver issuance issue licenses authorizing June 28 last paragraph license on form license to export license under subdivision LICENSES TO WITHHOLD monetary stocks monetary value necessity of obtaining numbered paragraph of section person postmaster prescribe President Proclamation Secretary section 80 section 95 seigniorage short ton silver bullion silver content silver is delivered Silver Purchase Act silver required silver situated silver sweepings silver-bearing materials standard silver dollars thereof tion transfer Treasury is authorized United States coinage United States Mint United States mints unmelted scrap silver
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Page 1 - Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before...
Page 13 - ... shall show the date thereof, the name of the seller, the amount of the sale, and the matter or thing to which it refers.
Page 13 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court...
Page 17 - By proclamation to fix the weight of the gold dollar in grains nine-tenths fine and also to fix the weight of the silver dollar in grains nine tenths fine at a definite fixed ratio in relation to the gold dollar at such amounts as he finds necessary from his investigation to stabilize domestic prices or to protect the foreign commerce against the adverse effect of depreciated foreign currencies...
Page 11 - The policy of the United States in the purchase of silver will be guided by the following considerations : The Silver Purchase Act of 1934 declares it to be the policy of the United States that " the proportion of silver to gold in the monetary stocks of the United States should be increased, with the ultimate objective of having and maintaining, one-fourth of the monetary value of such stocks in silver.
Page 16 - State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law.
Page 14 - ... whether made upon or shown by the books of the association, company, or corporation, or by any assignment in blank, or by any delivery, or by any paper or agreement or memorandum or other evidence of transfer...
Page 12 - The silver so delivered shall be coined into standard silver dollars or otherwise added to the monetary stocks of the United States as the President may determine ; and there shall be returned therefor in standard silver dollars, or any other coin or currency of the United States...
Page 18 - President may determine | and there shall be returned therefor in standard silver dollars, or any other coin or currency of the United States, the monetary value of the silver so delivered...
Page 11 - All coins and currencies of the United States (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations) heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues...