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PUBLIC LAW 90-29-JUNE 24, 1967

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GENERAL PROVISIONS, RELATED AGENCIES

SEC, 202. The per diem rate paid from appropriations made available under this title for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 or ^° ^*^*- '^^^• other law, shall not exceed $88. TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. This Act may be cited as the "Department of the Interior and Re- ^^°^ "*!«, lated Agencies Appropriation Act, 1968." Approved June 24, 1967.

Public Law 90-29 AN ACT To authorize adjustments in the amount of outstanding silver certificates, and for other purposes.

June 24, 1967 [S. 1352]

Be it eruicted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Siiver certifiof the Treasury is authorized to determine from time to time the "Accounting adamount of silver certificates (not exceeding $200,000,000 in aggregate justment. face value), issued after June 30, 1929, which in his judgment have been destroyed or irretrievably lost, or are held in collections, and will never be presented for redemption. I n the case of each determination he shall credit the appropriate receipt account with an equivalent amount, and shall reduce accordingly the amount of silver certificates outstanding on the books of the Treasury. SEC. 2. Silver certificates shall be exchangeable for silver bullion for,^f.^''^^"^^ ^^"' one year following the enactment of this Act. Thereafter they shall t a t i o n. no longer be redeemable in silver but shall be redeemable from any moneys in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. Effective upon the expiration of one year after the date of enactment of this Act, section 2 of the Act of June 4, 1963, as amended (31 U.S.C. 405a-l), is amended to read as follows: 7? Stat. 54; \

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"SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for coinage, or to sell on such terms and conditions as he may deem appropriate, any silver of the United States (other than silver transferred to the stockpiles established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act) at a price not less than the ^° f,*„^J^-„^f ^, 50 USC 98-98h. monetary value of $1.292929292 per fine troy ounce." Silver held in SEC. 4. From and after the date of enactment of this Act, and until r e s e r v e. transferred to the stockpiles established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act in accordance with this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall hold as a reserve for purposes of the common defense not less than one hundred and sixty-five million fine troy ounces of silver. Upon the expiration of one year after the date „tJ^'^"f/" *° s ockpiles. of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer not less than one hundred and sixty-five million fine troy ounces of silver to the stockpiles established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. For the purposes of that Act, the silver shall be deemed to have been transferred pursuant to that Act. SEC. 5. The last sentence of section 3517 of the Revised Statutes (31 Repeal U.S.C. 324) is repealed. Approved June 24, 1967.

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