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 'I`rru·: ¤¤¤»·¤.—co1NAGE, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES. 701 tendent shall comply with the wishes of the depositor, except when impracticable or inconvenient to do so. _ Sec. 3545. For the purpose of enabling the mints and the assay-office Payme ¤ t in in New lork to make returns to depositors with as little delay as possi— m°“f’Y '°° d°P°Sl*‘ ble, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to keep in such g2g,.,:,!:;',; nlm "` mints and ¤ssay—office, when the state of the Treasury will admit thereof. -—--—+—-- such an amount of public money, or bullion procured for the purpose. as Ib‘d··“·47-P·‘*3l· he shall judge convenient and necessary, out of which those who brin 4lg2{"$’,j8gg°‘ bullion to the said mints and assay-office may be paid the value thereof?'` in com or bars, as soon as practicable after the value has been ascertained. On payment thereof being made, the bullion so deposited shall become the property of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasurv mav, however, at any time withdraw the fund. or any portion thereof. V Sec. 3546. Unplarted bullion may be exchanged at any of the mints for Exchan of uniine bars, on suc terms and conditions as may be prescribed bv the P¤'*°d b“¥E°¤ for Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Emi b"°‘ _ The fineness, weight, and value of the bullion received and given in 12 Feb., 1873, c. exchange shall in all cases be determined b the mint assa *. The charge 131. S- 46. V- 17. D- to the depositor for refining or parting shall not exceed that allowed and 43L gpldpcted for the same operation in the exchange of unrefined for refined l ion. Sec. 3547. To secure a due conformity in the gold and silver coins to Appoimmmtmd their respective standards of fineness and weight, the judge of the dis- m¤¤¢i¤}x_0f HSSSY- trict court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, the Comptroller of °°‘““““‘°‘}‘*TS· the Currency, the assayer of the assay-office at New York, and such Ibid.,s.-l8,p.432. other persons as the President shall, from time to time, designate, shall meet as assay-commissioners, at the Mint in Philadelphia, to examine and test, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the tineness and weight of the coins reserved by the several mints for this purpose, on the second Vlfednesday in February. annually, and may continue their meetings by adjournment, if necessary. If a majority of the commissioners fail to attend at any time appointed for their meeting, the Director of the Mint shall call a meeting of the commissioners at such other time as he may deem convenient. lf it appears by such examination and test that these coins do not differ from the standard fineness and weight by a greater quantity than is allowed by law, the trial shall be considered and reported as satisfactory. lf. however, any greater deviation from the le l standard or weight appears, this fact shall be certified to the Presiddnt: and if, on a view of the circumstances of the case. he shall so decide. the officers implicated in the error shall be thenceforward disqualified from holding their respective offices. Sec. 3548. F or the purpose of securing a due conformity in weight of Standard t r o y the coins of the ('nited States to the provisions of this Title, the brass 1>i>¤[¤df<>;‘th_¤ Ngtroy-pound weight procured by the minister of the United States at Lon- ‘ don, in the year eighteen hundred and twentyseven, for the use of Ibid.,s.49,p.432. the Mint and now in the custody of the Mint at Philadelphia, shall be the standard troy pound of the Mint of the United States, conformably to which the coinage thereof shall be regulated. _ S1-nc. 35-19. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Mint to procure Standardweighm for each mint and assay-otiice, to be kept safely thereat, aseries of stand- formintsandassay ard weights corresponding to the standard troy pound of the Mintof <fj¤¤¤· __ _ the United States, consisting of a one-pound weight and the requisite Ibjd_’g_50’p_432_ subdivisions and multiples thereof, from the hundredth part of a_ gram to twenty-five pounds. The troy weights ordinarily employed in the transactions of such mints and assay-otiiccs shall be regulated according to the above standards at least once in every year, un er the inspection of the superintendent and assayer; and the accuracy of those use at the Mint at Philadelphia shall be tested annually, in the presence of the assay- commissioners, at the time of the annual examination and tcst of coins. SEc. 3550. The obverse workingdies at each mint shall, at the end of _ Yearly destruc each calendar year, be defaced and destroyed by the coiner in the pres- :‘;';k;’1fg_‘;,§'°’“° ence of the superintendent and assayer. é.-.. lb1(l.,s.5l,p.432.