1 CHAPTER V. An A& regulating Foreign Coins, and for other Sec. I. B Purposes. reign coins E it ended by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, Rates of fo That from and after the first day of July next, cftablished. foreign gold and filver coins fhall pafs current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands, at the feveral and refpective rates following, and not otherwife, viz. The gold coins of Great-Britain and Portugal, of their prefent ftandard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-feven grains of the actual weight thereof; the gold coins of France, Spain and the dominions of Spain, of their prefent ftandard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty feven grains and wo fifths of a grain, of the actual weight thereof. Spanish milled dollars, at the rate of one hundred cents for each dollar, the actual weight whereof fhall not be lefs than feventeen penny weights and seven grains; and in proportion for the parts of a dollar. Crowns of France, at the rate of one hundred and ten cents, for each crown, the actual weight whereof, shall not be less than eighteen penny weights and feventeen grains, and in proportion for the parts of a crown. But no foreign coin that may have been, or fhall be iffued fubfequent to the first day of January, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-two, fhall be a tender, as aforesaid, until famples thereof fhall have been found, by affay, at the mint of the United States, to be conformable to the refVOL. II. When all coins ex hall ccafe to be a tender. pective standards required, and proclamation thereof fhall have been made by the Prefident of the United States. Sec. 2. Provided always, and be it further cept Spa- enacted, That at the expiration of three years nith dollars next enfuing the time when the coinage of gold and filver, agreeably to the act, intitled, "An. act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States," fhall commence at the mint of the United States, (which time fhall be announced by the proclamation of the Prefident of the United States) all foreign gold coins, and all foreign filver coins, except Spanish milled dollars and parts of fuch dollars, fhall cease to be a legal tender, as aforefaid. Other fo reign coins ed anew. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all to be coins foreign gold and filver coins, (except Spanish milled dollars, and parts of fuch dollars) which fhall be received in payment for monies due to the United States, after the faid time, when the coining of gold and filver coins fhall begin at the mint of the United States, fhall, previously to their being iffued in circulation, be coined anew, in conformity to the act, intitled "An act establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States.” After It of July 1793, 55th fec. of a certain act rating foreign coin, repealed. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of July next, the fifty-fifth fection of the act, intitled, " An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States," which ascertains the rates at which foreign gold and filver coins fhall be received for the duties and fees to be collected in virtue of the faid act, be, and the fame is hereby repealed.. coins when to com mence. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Affay of aflay, provided to be made by the act, intitled, "An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States," fhall commence in the manner as by the faid act is prefcribed, on the second Monday of February, annually, any thing in the faid act to the contrary notwithstanding. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, February ninth, 1793: GEORGE WASHINGTON, CHAPTER VI. An Act relative to Claims against the United States, not barred by any Act of Limitation, and which have not been already adjusted. •BE claims a 1794. Sec. 1.DE it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United Limitation States of America in Congrefs affembled, That of certain all claims upon the United States, for fervices gainft U. S. or supplies, or for other cause, matter or thing, to Ift May, furnished or done, previous to the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, whether founded upon certificates, or other written documents from public officers, or otherwife, which have not already been barred by any act of limitation, and which fhall not be prefented at the treasury, Auditor how to keep record of fented. before the first day of May, one thousand fe ven hundred and ninety-four, fhall forever after be barred and precluded from settlement or allowance: Provided, That nothing herein contained, fhall be conftrued to affect loan office certificates, certificates of final fettlement, indents of intereft, balances entered in the books of the Register of the Treasury, certificates iffued by the Register of the Treafury, commonly called registered certificates, loans of money obtained in foreign countries, or certificates iffued pursuant to the act, intitled, An act making provifion for the debt of the United States:" And provided further, That nothing herein contained, fhall be confrued to prohibit the proper officers of the treafury from demanding an account or accounts to be rendered, for any monies heretofore advanced, and not accounted for, or from admitting, under the ufual forms and reftrictions, credits for expenditures, equal to the fums which have been fo advanced." a. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the Auditor of the Treafury, to receive all fuch claims aforefaid, as have not been heretofore barred by any act claims pre- of limitation, as fhall be prefented before the time aforefaid, with the certificates, or other documents in fupport thereof, and to caufe a record to be made of the names of the perfons, and of the time when the faid claims are prefented; which record fhall be made in the prefence of the perfon or perfons prefenting the fame, and fhall be the only evidence that the faid claims were prefented, during the time limited by this act. Officers of realury to report to Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the accounting officers of deemed in the treasury, to make report to Congrefs, upon Congress all fuch of the faid claims, as fhall not be al- claims lowed to be valid, according to the ufual forms valid. of the treasury. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, February twelfth, 1793: CHAPTER VII. An Act refpecting Fugitives from Justice, and •B cured. Sect. 1.DE it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Fugitives whenever the executive authority of any ftate from juftice in the Union, or of either of the territories how to be apprehendnorth-weft or fouth of the river Ohio, fhall ed and fe demand any perfon any perfon as a fugitive from juftice, of the executive authority of any such state or territory to which fuch perfon fhall have fled, and fhall moreover produce the copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magiftrate of any state or territory as aforefaid, charging the perfon fo demanded, with having committed treason, felony or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magiftrate of the ftate or territory from whence the perfon fo charged, fled, it thall be the duty of the executive authority of the state or territory to which fuch person fhall have fled, to caufe him or her to be arrested and fe |