United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/6th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 21
Chap. XXI.—An Act concerning the Mint.[1]
To remain at Philadelphia.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 36.
Act of April 1, 1808, ch. 41.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the mint shall remain in the city of Philadelphia, until the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three.
Act of Dec. 2, 1812, ch. 2.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 42.
Certain duties to be performed by the district judge and attorney of Pennsylvania and the commissioner of loans.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of the mint at the city of Philadelphia, the duties now enjoined on the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, the Secretary for the Department of State, and the Attorney General of the United States, by the eighteenth section of the act, intituled “An Act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” passed the second day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be performed by the district judge of Pennsylvania, the attorney for the United States in the district of Pennsylvania, and the commissioner of loans for the state of Pennsylvania.
Approved, March 3, 1801.
- ↑ The 2d section of the act of March 3, 1823, chap. 42, provides that the duty of attending to the examination of the coins at the mint, shall be performed by the collector of the port of Philadelphia, instead of the commissioner of loans. By the 32d section of the act supplementary to an act entitled, “An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” passed January 18, 1837, chap. 1, the annual trial of the gold and silver coins of the United States is required to be made before the district judge of Pennsylvania, the attorney of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, and collector of the port of Philadelphia, and such other persons as the President of the United States shall, for that purpose, designate.