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FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 131. 1873. 427 other practices ; and any gold coins in the treasury of the United States reduced in weight below this limit of abrasion shall be recoined. Sec. 15. That the silver coins of the Unitul States shall be a trade- Silverwins dollar, a half-dollar, or fifty-cent piece, a quarterdollar, or twenty-fivecent piece, a dime, or ten-cent piece; and the weight of the trade—dollar weight; shall be four hundred and twenty grains troy; the weight of the halfdollar shall be twelve grams (grammes) and one-half of a gram, (gramme;) the quarter-dollar and the dime shall be respectively, one-half and onlifth of the weight of said half-dollar; and said coins shall be a legal mba legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in t°“d"‘ any one payment. Sec. 16. That the minor coins of the United States shall be a five-cent Minor coins, piece, a three—ce¤t piece, and a one-cent piece, and the alloy for the five md ml' “u°y i and three cent pieces shall be of copper and nickel, to be composed of three-fourths copper and one-fourth nickel, and the alloy of the one-cent piece shall be ninety-five per centum of copper and five per centum of tin and zinc, in such proportions as shall be determined by the director of the mint. The weight of the piece of five cents shall be seventy-seven and Weigh; sixteen-hundredths grains, troy; of the three-cent piece, thirty grains ; and of the one-cent piece, forty-eight grains; which coins shall be a legal to be legal tender, at their nominal value, for any amount not exceeding twenty-five *°“d°'· cents in any one payment. Sec. 17. That no coins, either of gold, silver, or minor coinage, shall No coius,exhereafter be issued from the mint other than those of the denominations, °°P*> &°· standards, and weights herein set forth. Sec. 18. That upon the coins of the United States there shall be the Devices and following devices and legends: Upon one side there shall be an impres· l¤$€¤d¤ ¤P<>¤ sion emblematic of liberty, with an inscription of the word “Liberty " °°mS‘ and the year of the coinage, and upon the reverse shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with the inscriptions “United States of Inscriptions. America? and “E Pluribus Unum,” and a designation of the value of the coin ; but on the gold dollar and three-dollar piece, the dime, live, three, and one cent piece the figure of the eagle shall be omitted; and on the reverse of the silver trade-dollar, the weight and fineness of the coin shall be inscribed; and the director of the mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may cause the motto “In God we trust " to be inscribed upon such coins as shall admit of such motto; and any one of the foregoing inscriptions may be on the rim of the gold and silver coins. Sec. 19. That at the option of the owner, gold or silver may be cast Bars of gold or into bars of flue metal, or of standard fineness, or imparted, as he may SW/¢\'; prefer, with a stamp upon the same designating the weight and fineness, stamp and deand with such devices impressed thereon as may be deemed expedient to ‘"°°*i prevent fraudulent imitation, and no such bars shall be issued of a less limit towveight. weight than live ounces. Sec. 20. That any owner of gold bullion may deposit the same at any Deposits of mint, to be formed into coin or bars for his benet; but it shall he lawful {wld ¤lli<>¤ Y0! to refuse any deposit of less value than one hundred dollars, or any bullion °°m°g°’ so base as to be unsuitable for the operations of the mint; and when gold and silver are combined, if either metal be in such small proportiou that it cannot be separated advantageously, no allowance shall be made to the depositor for its value. Sec. 21. That any owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any _ of silver bulmint, to be formed into bars, or into dollars of the weight of four hundred h°“· and twenty grains, troy, designated in this act as trade-dollars, and tno deposit of silver for other coinage shall be received; but silver bullion contained in gold deposits, and separated therefrom, may be paid for in silver coin, at such valuation as may be, from time to time, established by ‘ the director of the mint.