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PUBLIC ACTS CF THE FCRTY-THIRD CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STALTES, Passed at the jirstsession, which was begun and held at the oily of Washington, in the Drstrict of Oolurnbia, on Monday, the jirst day-of December, 1873, and was adjourned without day on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of June, 1874. U1.YssEs S. GRANT, President. HENRY WILSON, Vice-President and President of the Senate. MATT. H. Gnm·ENTE12. was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the eleventh day of December, 1873, and so acted until the end of the session. JAMES G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1.-—An act to provide for the redemption of the loan of eighteen hundred and Dcc. 17, 1873. fifty-eight. '_""i'—"' Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America, in Congress assembted, That for the purpose of redeem-, R€d°"’P" ‘° “ °f ing the bonds issued under the act entitled "An act to authorize a. loan °°;gg8 oi,_ 16;, Voi_ not exceeding the sum of twenty millions of dollars," approved June xi,p.3t5. ' iourtecnth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, as amended March third, 1859. ¤h· B2, 5 6. eighteen hundred and fatty-nine, called the loan of eighteen hundred Wg x‘·P·43% d and fifty-eight, it is hereby declared to be the pleasure of the United m,,,£,uI;,:,,,i,io° 3,,,: States to pay all the coupon bonds of said loan on the first day of Jan- 1, 1874. nary, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, at which date tue interest Interest *0 ¤¤¤¤¤ thereon shall cease, and coin in the Treasury sufficient to redeem said wif"} ria,. f coupon bonds is hereby appropriated for that purpose. ooifp °P wu ° Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury may issue an equal amount, . 5 Poi oo,,i_ oomio at par of principal and interest, of fivepereentnm bonds of the funded may he issued in loan under the act for refunding the national debt, approved July four- ¤¤¤1¤¤¤g<-> Fer my teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the act amendatory thereof, §’§g‘§*° °f 1°”·“ °f . approved January twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one for any uio, oi,_ 256, Voi_ of the bonds of the loan of eighteen hundred and nfty-eight which the xviép.272 holders thereof may on or before February first, eighteen hundred and l 1; dl- 23» Wlseventy-four, elect to exchange for the tive-per-centum bonds of the said "‘•P"*99‘ funded loan, with interest from said January first: Provided, That no No oommiooioiio commissions or allowances whatever shall be paid for the exchange of sw., to be allowed bonds hereby authorized, and no interest shall be allowed on the new ¤¤ exvhaugcsbonds for any time for which interest is paid on the bonds exchanged. Approved, December 17, 1873. CHAP. 3.-An act making appropriations for extraordinary expenses of the naval Doo_31_ 1873. service. ‘_""’_‘Y‘*' Be it enacted b the Senate and House of Representatives of the United . . States of Amerie; in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, ox€iEfo;?i¥;TV';°°o*;€ and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the pauses of navy an- Treasury not otherwise appropriated. to meet extraordinary expenses your ending June in the naval service during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight- 3°¤ 1874j een hundred and seventy-tour, namely: Vol. 18, pt. 3-1