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 Trim: xxxv11.—OOINAGE, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES. 703 such, clerks, workmen. and laborers as may be authorized therefor bv Ibid., ss. 57, 55. law; and shall discharge the duties of disbui-sing nt for the expenses P· *33· of the othoe under his charge. The salaries pagideto clerks shall not C<>mpensaticu·>f exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars a year each. Workmen and °'“Pl°Y*”· laborers shall receive such wages as are customarv according to their respective stations and occupations. y bac. Each officer and clerk appointed at either of the assa · Bondandoathoi [qjiocnl [offices] embraced by section t 1rty-tive hundred and fifty-eight f’m°“"“ ““d °‘l°’k'*· shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take an oath pursu- Ibid.,s.58,p.433. ant to_ the provisions of Title XIX., "Pnovxsroxs [a plying] [A1>rr.r— 18 Fvb-. 1875, c. CABLE]. I0 savmur chimes or om··rcr:ns," and shallpgxve a bond to 8°:,"· 1,8-** 3}** the United States, with one or more sureties, satisfactory to the Director 6s"; 1iQb" 12g,' °' of the Mint or to one of the judges of the supreme court of the State ’’p` " or Territory in which the office to which he is appointed is located, couditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. [Seo 55 nm, im.] Sec. 3562. All provisions of law for the regulation of mints, the gov- Laws *‘¢l¤¤l¤s *0 ernment of officers and persons employed therein, and for the punish- '“""$’ “".°°"d""l t" ment of all odenses connected with mints or coinage, shall extend to all as}? L?:(°°;¢T assay-offices, as far as applicable. [Su s Mw-] 13, ,,_ ’,._8,§’ 5; Sec. 3563. The money of account of the United States shall be ex- 434:' pressed in dollars or units, dimes or tenths, cents, or hundredths, and D°°lm¤l ¤YS*¢¥¤ mills or thousandths, a dime bein the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the ?*"!l’l'“lT”‘f·_. .. _ hundredth part of a dollar, a mid the thousandth part of a dollar; and ,62sA2{’,"l*,1‘9%.,3‘ all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the courts shall ’"` ’p`` be kept and had in conformity to this regulation. Sec. 3564. The value of forei n coin as expressed in the money of ac~ Value of foreign count of the United States shall; be that of the pure metal of such coin °°?¤¤» l10W ¤S¤¤f· of standard value; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of  _ the various nations of the world shall be estimated annually by the 3 Mar., 1873, c. Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the iirst day of January by 268- ¤· l· "· 17» P· the Secretary of the Treasury. N- The (‘ollector v. Richards, 23 Wall., 246. Sec. 3565. In all payments by or to the Treasury, whether made here V¤l_¤¢ of the or in foreign countries, where it becomes necessary to compute the value “?"‘;l°‘$“°"P°““d of the sovereign or pound sterling, it shall be deemed equal to four dol- ELSE _ ..._- lars eighty-six cents and six and 0ne—half mills, and the same rule shall 3 MM. 1873. ¤· be applied in appraising merchandise imported where the value is, by 6233* “‘ 2* "· l7· P' the invoice, in sovereigns or pounds sterling, and in the construction of ` contracts payable in sovercigns or pounds sterling; and this valuation shall be the Jar of exchange between Great Britain and the United States: and all contracts made after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, based on an assumed par of exchange with Great Britain of fifty-four pence to the dollar, or four dollars forty-four and four-ninths cents to the sovereign or pound sterling, shall be null and void. Src. 3566. All foreign gold and silver coins received in payment for Rpcoinage of moneys due to the United States shall, before being issued in circulation, f°’*§[ff"“S· _ be coined anew. 9 Feb., 1793,c. 5, s. 3, v. 1, p. 301. 21 Feb., 1857, c. 56, s. 2, v. ll, p. 163. Sec. 3567. The pieces commonly known as the quarter, eighth, and Spanish ¤¤¢l sixteenth of the Spanish pillar-dollar, and of the Mexican do lar, shall M“““" """*“j be receivable at the Treasury of the United States, and its scveml offices, 21 Feb., 1857, c. and at the several post-ofliccs and land~otHccs., at the rates of valuation 56·¤· LV·U»1>·l63· following: the fourth of a dollar, or piece of two reals, at twenty cents; the eighth of a dollar, or piece of one real, at ten cents; and the six~ tenth of a dollar, or half—rcal, at five cents. Src. 3568. The Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Sccre- _’I‘heir transmistary of the Treasury, may prescribe such regulations as are ncccssary and {""“ f"" "°f"{"§Sj proper. to secure the transmission of the coms mentioned in the prccccl- -721 Feb., 1857, c. mg section to the Mint for recoinage, and the [turn] [return] or drstrnbu- #>¢t=·-2.y.11,p.163. tion of the proceeds thereof, when deemed ex(pedient, and may prescribe mz? q‘él’·})1g’_Z,· "· such forms of account as are appropriate an applicable to the circnm- ’ ’ ’‘