plus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereupon, to the end of the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-five: and thirdly, the furplus which shall remain unexpended of the monies appropriated to the use of the war-department for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.

row to the

propria

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That Prefident the Prefident of the United States be empow- may borered to borrow, on behalf of the United amount of States, of the bank of the United States, these apwhich is hereby authorized to lend the fame, tions. or of any other body or bodies politic, perfon or persons, any fum or fums not exceeding in the whole, the fums herein appropriated, and to be applied to the purposes aforefaid, and to be reimburfed as well intereft as principal out of the funds aforefaid.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
HENRY TAZEWELL, Prefident of the

Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED, March the third, 1795.

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

An Act fupplementary to the Act, intitled, “ An
Act establishing a Mint, and regulating the
Coins of the United States."

Sec. I.

BE

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That for the

officer of

the mint by

the melter

Additional better conducting of the bufinefs of the mint of the United States, there fhall be an addithe name of tional officer appointed therein, by the name of and refiner. the melter and refiner, whofe duty fhall be to take charge of all copper, and filver or gold bullion, delivered out by the treasurer of the mint after it has been affayed, agreeably to the rules and customs of the mint already direcHis duty. ted and established, or which may hereafter be directed and established, by the accounting officers of the treasury, and to reduce the fame into bars or ingots fit for the rolling mills, and then to deliver them to the coiner or treasurer, as the director fhall judge expedient; and to do and perform all other duties belonging to the office of a melter and refiner, or which shall be ordered by the director of the mint.

To take

oath and

rity.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the melter and refiner of the said mint, fhall, before he enters upon the execution of his faid giva fecu- office, take an oath or affirmation before fome judge of the United States, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties thereof. And also fhall become bound to the United States of America, with one or more fureties, to the fatisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the fum of fix thousand dollars, with condition for the faithful and diligent performance of the feveral duties of his office.

His com

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there fhall be allowed and paid to the faid melpenfation. ter and refiner of the mint, as a compenfation for his fervices, the yearly falary of fifteen hundred dollars.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That

may make

ment.

the director of the mint be, and hereby is Prefident authorized, with the approbation of the temporary Prefident of the United States, to employ appointfuch perfon as he may judge fuitable to discharge the duties of the melter and refiner, until a melter and refiner fhall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice of the Senate.

Treasurer

part of bul

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer of the mint fhall, and he is hereby of the mint directed, to retain two cents per ounce from to retain every depofit of filver bullion below the ftan- lion depodard of the United States, which hereafter fhall fited, &c, be made for the purpose of refining and coining; and four cents per ounce from every depofit of gold bullion made as aforefaid, below the ftandard of the United States, unless the fame fhall be fo far below the ftandard as to require the operation of the teft; in which cafe, the treasurer fhall retain fix cents per ounce, which fum fo retained fhall be accounted for by the faid treafurer with the treasury of the United States, as a compenfation for melting and refining the fame.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer treasurer of the mint fhall not be obliged to of the mint receive from any perfon, for the purpofe of fhall not he obliged to refining and coining, any depofit of filver bul- receive cer lion, below the standard of the United States, tain depoin a smaller quantity than two hundred ounces; lion. nor a like depofit of gold bullion below the faid standard, in a fmaller quantity than twenty ounces.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That from and after the paffing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the officers of the mint

fits of bul

the mint

Officers of to give a preference to filver or gold bullion, may give a depofited for coinage, which fhall be of the preference ftandard of the United States, fo far as refof the ftan- pects the coinage of the fame, although buldard of the lion below the standard, and not yet refined,

to bullion

U. S.

may have been depofited for coinage, previous thereto, any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That nothing herein fhall justify the officers of the mint, or any one of them, in unneceffarily delaying the refining any filver or gold bullion below standard, that may be depofited, as aforefaid.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Prefident Prefident of the United States be, and he is the weight hereby authorized, whenever he fhall think of copper it for the benefit of the United States, to re

may reduce

coin.

Mode of

duce the weight of the copper coin of the United States: Provided, fuch reduction fhall not, in the whole, exceed two pennyweights in each cent, and in the like proportion in a half cent; of which he fhall give notice by proclamation, and communicate the fame to the then next feffion of Congress.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That it distribution shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the Uniand half ted States, from time to time, as often

of cents

cents.

as he fhall receive copper cents and half cents from the Treasurer of the mint, to fend them to the bank or branch banks of the United States, in each of the states where fuch bank is established; and where there is no bank established, then to the collector of the principal town in fuch ftate (in the proportion of the number of inhabitants of such state) to be by fuch bank or collector, paid out to the citizens of the ftate for cash, in fums not lefs

than ten dollars value; and that the fame be
done at the risk and expense of the United
States, under such regulations as fhall be pre-
scribed by the department of the treasury.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
HENRY TAZEWELL, Prefident of the
Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED, March the third, 1795:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

An Act for the more effectual Recovery of Debts due from Individuals to the United States.

Sec. I.

B

fue notifi

&c.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That Comptrolthe Comptroller of the Treafury be, and is ler may if hereby authorized, to iffue a notification to cation to any person who has received monies for which debtors, he is accountable to the United States, or to the executor or adminiftrator of fuch perfon, if he be deceased, requiring him to render to the Auditor of the Treafury, at fuch time as he fhall think reafonable, according to the circumstances of the cafe, within twelve months from the date of fuch notification, all his accounts and vouchers, for the expenditure of the faid monies; and in default thereof, fuits fhall, at the discretion of the Comptroller of the Treasury, be commenced for the fame, without further notice: And the VOL. III. F 2