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 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATION S. Nos. 5, 6. 755 them, and by as correspondent conduct as citizens and as men; to render this country more and more a safe and propitious asylum for the unfortunate of other countries; to extend among us true and useful lmowledve; to difuse and establish habits of sobriety, order, morality, and piety, and dually to impart all the blessings we possess, or ask {br ourselves, to the whole famil of mankind. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the llnited States of America to be affixed tp theseppresents, and signed the same with my [1.. s.] hand. Done at the city of hiladelphia, the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-tive, and of the independence of the United States of America the nineteenth. GEO. WASHNGTON. BY run Pnnsxnzur: EDM. RANDOLPH. N0. 6. Respecting Uoinage and Tender. BY JOHN ADAMS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES July 22,1*197. OF AMERICA. —·———4 A PROCLAMATION. Wiarcnnas an Act of the Congress of the United States was passed on the ninth day of February, 1798, intituled "An act regulating foreign coins and for 1793, ch. 5. other purposes," in which it was enacted “that foreip gold and silver coins, shall pass current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for VOL g_ P_ 3Oq_ the payment of all debts and demands " at the several and respective rates therein stated: and that “at the expiration of three years, next ensuing the time when the coinge ofgold and silver agreeably to the act intituled "An act 1792, ch- N- establishinv a Mint an rerrulating the coins of the United States," shall commence at the Mint of the Snited States, (which time shall be announced by the V I . 246 Proclamation of the President of the United States,) all foreign gold coins, and °l' p' ` all foreign silver coins, except Spanish milled dollars, and parts of such dollars, shall cease to be a legal tender as aforesaid. Now therefore, I, the said JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States, _C0i¤age of hereby reclaim, announce, and give notice to all whom it may concern, that gllvgr d°°I‘“'°d avrecably to the act last above mentioned, the coinge of silver at the Mint of the gmx; 5g53E United States, commenced on the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven 1-;;;.;, md me ’ hundred and ninety-four, and the coinage of gold on the thirty-hrst day of July, coinage of gold one thouand seven hundred and ninety-hvc: and that, consequently, in con- Ju? 1J79E-, formity to the act Erst above mentioned, all foreign silver coins, except Spanish not 3x32g;' ggé'; milled dollars and parts of such dollars, will cease to pass current asmoney within gpm mm dma the United States and to be a legal tender for the payment of any debts or demands after the fifteenth day of October next, and all foreign gold coins will cease to pass current as money within the United States and to  a legal tender as aforesaid for the Payment of any debts or demands after the thirty-first day of July, whiclh will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nmet ·—ei t. y Ingvestimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at Philadelphia, the twenty-second day 0fJuly, in the year of our [L. s.] Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and of the independence of the United States the twenty-second. JOHN ADAMS. BY Tun Pnnsxnnur: TIMOTHY PICKERNG, Secretary of State.