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 4 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 6-8. 1893. 0¤¤>l>•¤‘ 3L 18%- CHAP. 6.-An Act Providing for the construction of a steam revenue cutter for _"_"""—"‘“ the New England coast. ’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Revenue ¤¤¤¤r for States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the N"' E"‘h°°°°"°" Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to have constructed a steam revenue cutter of the iirst class for service on the New England coast, cm. at a cost not exceeding one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Approved, October 31, 1893. November 1. lm. CHAP. 'I.—An Act To amend section six of the act approved March third, eighteen www hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to repeal timber culture laws, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P¤¤·1i¤¤~¤•1¤- States of America in Congress assembled, That section six of an act ap· . vo1.zc.p. wss. proved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety—0ne, entitled “An act to repeal timber culture laws, and for other purposes," is hereby R-S-$¤=·Z’°¤·P·4¤· amended by adding in line eleven, section twenty-three hundred and one, after the words South Dakota, “and in the State of Nebraska," so as to read as follows: . imymsres in ru- “And the provisions of this section shall apply to lands on the ceded
 * .‘{'}_l°§,,b.¥.. §’r'I,T§§’.°£ portion of the Sioux Reservation, by act approved March second,

•¤·¤¤¤¤¤· eighteen hundred and eightymine, in South Dakota and in the State of "°'· ”·¥*““· Nebraska, but shall not relieve said settlers from any payments now required by law." Sec. 2. That all acts and parts of acts in conilict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, November 1, 1893. November 1,18iB. CHAP. 8.——An Act To repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen --~·—-·————··— hundred and ninety, entitled "An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act approved §;;g£· to pub July fourteentlneighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing time aim repealed. the purchaseof silver bullion andissue of Treasury notes thereon, and for v·»1.2¤. p. M. other purposes,” as directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from · time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of four million five hundred thousand ounces, or so much thereof as may be offered in each month at the market price thereof, not exceeding one dollar for three hundred and seventy-one and twenty-tive one-hundredths grains of pure silver, and to issue in payment for such purchases Treasury notes of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. ldncl it is hereby , declared to be the policy of the United States to continue the use of both Mmmm; Zmgmtg gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into n,,,,,,,,, money of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, such equality to be secured through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as will insure the maintenance of the parity in value of the rrrny to be mm. coins of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all ‘“‘“°"· times in the markets and in the payment of debts. And it is hereby further declared that the efforts of the Government should be steadily _symm of bonsai- directed to the establishment of such a safe system of bimetallism as “““‘· will maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar coined or gslugesd by the United States, in the markets and in the payment of e . Apprdved, November 1, 1893.