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 F1F'1‘Y-N1NTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1I. Cns. 2912, 2912. 1907. 1289 said company, its successors or assigns, shall, upon request of the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War, convev free of cost to I °‘,;“'$>'”;‘,j`°°,§°%"°’ the United States of America such suitable tract or tracts of land as Sli-liu;. 0 `e mm may be selected by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of Wa1· for the establishment of such lock or locks and approaches and other purposes as the needs of navivation may require. Sec. 3. That this Act shalldw null and void unless the dam herein ,,Q;,*“‘° °‘ °°““’“°· authorized be commenced within three years and completed within ` seven years from the time of the passage of this Act. Sec. 4. The authority herein conferred shall, except as herein spe- 4¤¢¢·1>-¤6- cifically provided, be subject in all respects to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters," approved une twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six. Sec. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby A¤°¤d¤°¤*~ expressly reserved. Approved, March 4, 1907, 10 a. m. . 8.- am` i ¤ h . . PUGHAIE 291 An Act To end the national banking ict, and for other [;i;[;T§··iq ] n IC, 0. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRqn·eaentatives of the United States of America in Lbngreea assembled, That section six of an Act G¤rr¢¤¤y m- to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all v°1'm'P‘"‘ forms of mone · issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth nineteen hundred, be, and the same is hereb, amended to read as follows: “Suc. 6. That the Secretary of the 'iyreasu is hereby authorized nga ¤¤{,¢i¤¤¤&¤¤ is and directed to receive de sits of gold coin  the Treasurer, or any me mi;. °°°°"° ° assistant treasurer of the United States in sums of not less than twenty dollars, and to issue gold certificates therefor in denominations of not _,J:g<>¤¤*¤¤¢i¤¤ re less than ten dollars. and the coin so deposited shall be retained in the v¤r.éi,p.4:,¤mena- Treasury and held for the payment of such certificates on demand, and °°· used for no other u se. Such certificates shall be receivable for customs, taxes, and alllxpublic dues, and when so received may be reissued. and when held by any national bankingassociation may be counted as a part of its lawful reserve: Provided, hat whenever and so long gjgfggicn 0,,_m_ as the gold coin and bullion held in the reserve fund in the Treasur 0n n-mruuon ur rcfor the redemption of United States notes and Treasury notes shuil Rmieiliiiliin. fall and remain below one hundred million dollars the authority to issue certificates as herein provided shall be suspended: And prmdclezl · further. That whenever- an so longasthe aggregate amount of United ,_(Qg,Q]},;{g¤¤¤y{:¤**1*;: States notes and silver certificates in the general fund of the Treasury the rmsuiy. " . shall exceed sixty million dollars the Secretary of the Treasury muy, in his discretion. suspend the issue of the certificates herein provided for: And pi·m:ide¢l_7‘$u·thw·. That of the amount of such outstanding °_gg;,¤;glg,~;:;¤i¤¤;;’t,y,g certificates one—fourth at least shall bein denominations of fifty dollars cms. or less: And p¢·oz·2°r{e(I__)‘izr‘f}1er. That the Secretary of the Treasury ¤“H°“°*9*· may, in his discretion, issue such certificates in denominations of ten thousand dollars. payable to order. And section fifty-one hundred mg, rigejtga 5***% P· and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby ’ ' repealed." ‘ Sec. 2. That whenever and so long as the outstanding silver- certifi- }`;,*{,~“*f,>,,gg*°f,-e,c,_ cafes of the denominations of one dollar, two dollars, and five dollars, enqy ems in smu issued under the provisions of section seven of an Act entitled "An siiwZi,§ii3flE?°°°` Act to define and fix the standard of value. to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt. and for other purp0ses,l’ approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred, shall be, in the opinion of the Secretary of the