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FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CII. 329. 1878. 19] And refining and parting of bullion shall be carried on at the mints of Rdin€ngam!pa»·t— the United States and at the assay-office at New York. And it shall ***9 "“"*°"· be lawful to apply the moneys arising from charges collected from depositors for these operations pursuant to law so far as may be necessary to the defraying in full of the expenses thereof', including labor, materials, and wastage; but no part of the moneys otherwise appropriated for the support of the mints and the assay-office at New York shall be used to defray the expenses of refining and parting bullion; but when the bullion received shall not, in the aggregate, be in such proportion of gold and silver as to admit of economical parting, or the necessary supplies of acids cannot be procured at reasonable rates, unparted R. S. 3546, p. 705. bullion may be exchanged for fine bars, as provided in section thirty- five hundred and fortysix of the Revised Statutes of the United States. d For recoinage of gold and silver coins in the Treasury five thousand Recoinnge. ollars. MINT AT PHILADELPHIA.—FOT salaries of the superintendent, four py,;],,,; ,,1,, y,;,,, thousand five hundred dollars; for the assayer, mclter and retiner, mint. coiner, and engraver, four in all, at three thousand dollars each; the assistant assayer, assistant coiner, and assistant melter and refiner, at two thousand dollars each ; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and (ifty dollars; bookkeeper and deposit·clerk, at two thousand dollars each; weigh-clerk, two thousand dollars; and one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, two hundred and eighty-tive thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, seventy-two thousand tive hundred dollars. For freight on bullion and coin, five thousand dollars. Mmtr AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.—FOP salaries of superin- Sm, Francisco tendent,four thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, mclter and refiner, mint. aud coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, two hundred and seventy-Eve thousand dollars. For materials and repairs, fuel, lights, chemicals, and other necessaries, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. YMINT AT CARSON, NEVADA.-—For salary of superintendent, three Carson mint. thousand dollars; for assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each ; chief clerk, at two thousand two hun_dred and fifty dollars; cashier and bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each ; weigh-clerk, two thousand dollars; voucher-clerk and computing-clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assayer’s clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, eighty thousand dollars. For materials and repairs, fuel, light, charcoal, chemicals, and other necessaries, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For replacing the boilers and enlarging and rebuilding the boilerhouse, eight thousand five hundred dollars. · .MlNT AT DENVER, CoLoRADo.-For salaries of assayer in charge, Denver mint. two thousand five hundred dollars; mclter, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; In all, seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, lights, acids, chemicals, cruciblcs, repairs, and other necessaries, three thousand dollars. And for the purpose of enabling the several mints and assay-offices paymont to dcof the United States to make returns to depositors with as little delay pvvitvrv cvtmintvlvwas possible, the provisions of section thirty-tive hundred and forty-tive 1*-8-3·°‘“’·P· 'US-