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12 White 14 Fixed 2d article treaty 34th Congress 3d article 4th article treaty act of August act of March amount of appropriation April 22 August 18 Beacon Branch Mint Cape cent clerks of class coast collections in suits commenced compensation contingent expenses custom-house D. N. INGRAHAM Deputy collector duty eastern district ending June 30 Estimates of appropriations February 21 fiscal year ending Florida harbor HOWELL COBB hydrography incidental expenses Indians inspector instalments iron Island July June 12 keeper's dwelling Lake Laws Light on keeper's light-house Light-house Board light-vessel manufactures miles Navy North Carolina Number Oregon Territory Pensacola Point Port post office present fiscal Refitted repairs river salary Secretary Sept September 30 shoal Statutes at Large steamer Superintendent Supt Surety surveyor tions Total amount TREASURY DEPARTMENT United vessels volume 9 Washington Territory withdrawn to September
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Page 14 - Constitution which declares that ' ' all duties, imposts, and excises" shall "be uniform throughout the United States...
Page 148 - An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States...
Page 64 - In the sixth is shown the value as paid at the mint after the uniform deduction of one-half of one per cent. The former is the value for any other purposes than recoinage, and especially for the purpose of comparison; the latter is the value in exchange for our coins at the mint. For the silver there is no fixed legal valuation, the law providing for shifting the price according to the condition of demand and supply.
Page 61 - That all former acts authorizing the currency of foreign gold or silver coins, and declaring the same a legal tender in payment for debts, are hereby repealed; but it shall be the duty of the Director of the Mint to cause assays to be made, from time to time, of such foreign coins as may be known to our commerce, to determine their average weight, fineness, and value, and to embrace in his annual report a statement of the results thereof.
Page 243 - ... courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, gas, repairs of gas and water fixtures, water rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture, furniture for officers' quarters, bed-sacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters...
Page 61 - An act relating to foreign coins and to the coinage of cents at the Mint of the United States...
Page 167 - Customs, who shall perform all the acts and exercise all the powers, now devolved by law on the First Comptroller of the Treasury, relating to the receipts from customs and the accounts of collectors and other officers of the customs, or connected therewith...
Page 60 - SIR: I have the honor to present the following report of the...
Page 103 - For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Page 41 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes," approved February 28, 1919, and all other Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.