Idem, s. 3. Title 37. ascertained. The present silver coins of the United States of smaller denominations than one dollar shall hereafter be a legal tender in all sums not exceeding ten dollars in full payment of all dues, public and private. SEC. 3564. The value of foreign coin as expressed in the Value of for money of account of the United States shall be that of eign coins, how the pure metal of such coin of standard value; and the Mar. 3, 1873, s. values of the standard coins in circulation of the various 1, v. 17, p. 602. nations of the world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury. Value of the sovereign or Ibid, s. 2. SEC. 3565. In all payments by or to the Treasury, whether pound sterling. made here or in foreign countries, where it becomes necessary to compute the value of the sovereign or pound sterling, it shall be deemed equal to four dollars eighty-six cents and six and one-half mills, and the same rule shall be applied in appraising merchandise imported where the value is, by the invoice, in sovereigns or pounds sterling, and in the construction of contracts payable in sovereigns or pounds sterling; and this valuation shall be the par 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. Recoinage of SEC. 3566. All foreign gold and silver coins received in foreign coin. Feb. 9, 1793, s. 3, payment for moneys due to the United States shall, before v. 1. p. 301: Feb. being issued in circulation, be coined anew. 21, 1857, s. 2, v. 11, p. 163. Spanish and Mexican coins. 1, v. 11, p. 163. SEC. 3567. The pieces commonly known as the quarter, Feb. 21, 1857, s. eighth, and sixteenth of the Spanish pillar-dollar, and of the Mexican dollar, shall be receivable at the Treasury of the United States, and its several offices, and at the several post-offices, and land-offices, at the rates of valuation 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 sixteenth of a dollar, or half-real, at five cents. Title 39. SEC. 3584. No foreign gold or silver coins shall be legal Foreign coins, tender in payment of debts. Feb. 21, 1857, s. 3, v. 11, p. 163. CIRCULAR ESTIMATING AND PROCLAIMING, IN THE UNITED STATES 1883. DEPARTMENT No. 1. Secretary's Office. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF THE MINT, Washington, D. C., January 1, 1883. SIR: In pursuance of the provisions of section 3564 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, I have estimated the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world, and submit the same in the accompanying table. Very respectfully, HORATIO C. BURCHARD, Director of the Mint. Title 37. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., January 1, 1883. The foregoing estimation, made by the Director of the Mint, of the value of the foreign coins above mentioned, I hereby proclaim to be the values of such coins expressed in the money of account of the United States, and to be taken in estimating the values of all foreign merchandise, máde out in any of said currencies, imported on or after January 1, 1883. Sec. CHAS. J. FOLGER, Secretary of the Treasury. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 3569. Use of the metric system author- Sec. 3570. Authorized tables of weights and measures. 3551. Dies may be executed, etc. SEC. 3569. It shall be lawful throughout the United Use of metric States of America to employ the weights and measures of system author- the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or pleading July 28, 1866, s. in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection ized. 1, v. 14, p. 339. Authorized tables of weights and measures. Ibid., s. 2. because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 3570. The tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts, and in all legal proceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States, the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system; and the tables may lawfully be used for computing, determining, and expressing in customary weights and measures the weights and measures of the metric system. of a cubic decimeter. of a cubic meter... 2 bushels and 3.35 pecks. 9.08 quarts 0.908 quarts. 6. 1022 cub. inch. Centiliter.... ro 10 cub. centimeters.. 0. 6102 cub. inch...... 2. 6417 galls. 1. 0567 q'ts. 0.845 gills. 0.338 fluid ounces. 0.27 fluid drams. 26. 417 galls. SEC. 3551. Dies of a national character may be executed by the engraver, and national and other medals struck by the coiner of the Mint at Philadelphia, under such reg ulations as the superintendent, with the approval of the director of the Mint, may prescribe. Such work shall not, however, interfere with the regular coinage operations, and no private medal dies shall be prepared at any mint, or the machinery or apparatus thereof be used for that purpose. Title 37. National and other medals may bestruck at mint at Philadelphia. 52, v. 17, p. 432; June 16, 1874, ch. 1471. Title of chiefs of Bureaus. Surgeon-General to act on board of 1565. Pay of chiefs of Bureaus. Feb. 12, 1873, s. 288, v. 19, p. 76. SEC. 415. There shall be at the seat of Government an Executive Department, to be known as the Department of Title 10. Establishment the Navy, and a Secretary of the Navy, who shall be the of the Depart head thereof. ment of the Navy. 20 A.G.Op., p.8. Apr. 30, 1798, s. 1, v. 1, p. 553. July 11, 1890. For an assistant Secretary of the Navy, to be appointed, Supp. R. S., p. from civil life, by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall receive a compensaretary of the tion, at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per Navy. 772. Assistant Sec See note 1. R. S.. sec. 416. Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 541, par. 8. Mar. 3, 1891. annum. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who shall hereafter Supp. R. S., p. perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary Assistant Sec. of the Navy or required by law. 927. retary of Navy. July 11, 1890, ch. 667, par. 5. June 8, 1880. 290-291. That the President of the United States be, and he is 21 Stat. L., 164. hereby, authorized to appoint, for the term of four years, Supp.R. S., pp. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from Judge-Advo. the officers of the Navy or the Marine Corps, a judgecato-General of advocate-general of the Navy, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a captain in the Navy or a colonel in the R. S., sec. 416. Marine Corps, as the case may be. Navy to be appointed. Office of, to be in Department; his duties, etc. June 19, 1878, ch. 329, par. 8. And the office of the said judge-advocate-general shall be in the Navy Department, where he shall, under the R.S.. sec. 349. direction of the Secretary of the Navy, receive, revise, and have recorded the proceedings of all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and boards for the examination of officers for retirement and promotion in the naval service, and perform such other duties as have heretofore been performed by the solicitor and naval judge-advocate-general. June 5, 1895. 2, p. 500. Navy. That the Act "to authorize the President to appoint an 29 Stat. L., 251. Officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps to perform the Supp. R. S., v. duties of solicitor and judge-advocate-general, and so forth, and to fix the rank and pay of such officer," approved June cate general's eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby amended by inserting in said Act in lieu of the words "with the ch. 129 (1 Supp. rank, pay, and allowances of a captain in the Navy, or a colonel in the Marine Corps, as the case may be," the words "with the rank and highest pay of a captain [in] the Navy, or the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel in the Marine Corps, as the case may be:" pay. June 8, 1880, R. S., 290). R. S., § 349. -to date from 1892. Provided, That this amendment shall take effect from Became a law July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the date without the on which the present incumbent entered on duty, and that proval, June 5, the amount herein appropriated shall be payable from the appropriation "Pay of the Navy." President's ap 1896. Mar. 28, 1896. That hereafter the commissions of all officers under the 29 Stat. L., 75. direction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury, Supp. R. S., the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the 2, p. 454. Note 1.-R. S., § 1794, required all civil commissions for Presidential appointments to be made out and recorded in the Department of State. The act in the text, together with those of 1874, March 18, ch. 57 (1 Supp. R. S., 5), relating to the Post-Office Department; 1875, March 3, ch. 131, § 14 (1 Supp. R. 5., 78), relating to the Department of the Interior; and 1888, Aug. 8, ch. 786 (1 Supp. R. S., 605), relating to the Department of Justice, now require all commissions to be made out and recorded in the Department under which the officer is to serve. |