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FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 186,187. 1903. , 771 silver coins of the United States, the expense of transportation to be ’f,§8!,{f;§° °‘ um paid by the United States. P0 ' Sec. 3. That any collector of customs or of internal revenue of the S,§;‘j,hé'g*,,§$f°’U¤i*d United States in the Hawaiian Islands shall, if he is so directed by the ` Secretary of the Treasury, exchange standard silver coins of the United States that are in his custody as such collector with the government of Hawaii, or with any person desiring to make such exchange, for coins of the government of Hawaii, at their face value when the same are not alkaded below the lawful standard of circulation, and the Treasurer of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to deposit such silver coins of the United States as shall be necessary with the collector of customs or of internal revenue at Honolulu or at any Government depository for the purpose of making such exchange under such regulations as he may prescribe. Sec. 4. That any silver coins struck by the overnment of Hawaii 18{E‘§§§_ f"" “·“‘“‘ that are mutilated or abraded below such standard may be presented . for recoinage at any mint in the United States by the person owning the same, or his or her agents, in sums of not less than fifty dollars, and such owner shall be paid for such coins by the superintendent of the mint the bullion value per troy ounce of the fine silver they contain in standard Silver coin of the United States, and such bullion shall be coined into subsidiary coinage of ·the United States. Sec. 5. That silver coins heretofore struck by the government of ulgfjnxvlltggu Hawaii shall continue to be le l tender for debts in the Territor of U' Hawaii, in accordance with the Taaws of the Republic of Hawaii, untily the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four, and not afterwards. Sec. 6. That any silver certificates heretofore issued by the govern- ve*1$j*;$g,{*c*j,*;gs °f **1- ment of the Hawaiian Islands, intended to be circulated as money, shall ` be redeemed by the Territorial government of Hawaii on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and five, and after said date it shall be unlawful to circulate the same as money. Sec. 7. That nothingin this Act contained shall bind the United States Sggifggpfg Uuim to redeem any silver certificates issued by the government of Hawaii, ' or any silver coin issued by such government, except in the manner and upon the conditions stated in this Act for the recoinage of Hawaiian silver. Sec. 8. That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as ,r£{>¤¤P**¤*i¤¤ fm . . . sporting coins. may be necessary, is hereby approplriated, from any moneys in the Treasury of the nited States not otherwise appropriated, for the pay- ment of the expenses of transporting said coms from the Hawaiian Islands to the mint at San Francisco, and a return of a like amount in the subsidiary coins of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands. Approved, January 14, 1903. , CHAP. 187.-An Act For the refund of certain tonnage taxes. J¤¤¤¤ryri. 1903. Be it enacted big t/ae Senate and House OfR$€867LZdt’£®¢8 of the United [Public' N0` N`] States of Amerzea in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Sce¤mgg¤··S¤p¤¤gg Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund, out Tl'E§§'¤'}°{{,€0~§,ti?°“f§‘d of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, additional mx rg tonnage taxes, at the rate of one dollar per ton, amounting to seven funded co. thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars, heretofore levied on the Steamers Santiago de Cuba, Santiago, Cienfuegos, and Olinda on entry at New York from Cuban ports. Approved, January 14, 1903.