United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 96
Chap. XCVI.—An Act regulating the value of certain foreign gold coins within the United States.[1]
Act of June 25, 1834, ch. 71.
Rates at which gold coins shall be receivable after July 31, 1834.
Coins of Great Britain, Portugal, and Brazil.
France.
Spain, Mexico, and Colombia.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the thirty-first day of July next, the following gold coins shall pass as current as money within the United States, and be receivable in all payments, by weight, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rates following, that is to say: the gold coins of Great Britain, Portugal, and Brazil, of not less than twenty-two carats fine, at the rate of ninety-four cents and eight-tenths of a cent per pennyweight; the gold coins of France nine-tenths fine, at the rate of ninety-three cents and one-tenth of a cent per pennyweight; and the gold coins of Spain, Mexico, and Colombia, of the fineness of twenty carats three grains and seven-sixteenths of a grain, at the rate of eighty-nine cents and nine-tenths of a cent per pennyweight.
Annual assays to be made.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the aforesaid gold coins, made current by this act, to be had at the mint of the United States, at least once in every year, and to make a report of the result thereof to Congress.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
- ↑ Notes of the acts which have been passed relative to foreign coins, vol. ii. p. 374.