United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 92

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
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4052067United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Third Session, Chapter 92United States Congress


March 3, 1843.

Chap. XCII.An Act to fix the value of certain foreign moneys of account, in computations at the custom-houses.[1]

1846, ch. 14.
1845, ch. 45.
Value of certain foreign moneys at the custom-house.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all computations of the value of foreign moneys of account at the custom-houses of the United States, the thaler of Prussia shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of sixty-eight and one half cents; the mil-reis of Portugal shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of one hundred and twelve cents; the rix-dollar of Bremen shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-eight and three-quarter cents; the thaler of Bremen, of seventy-two grotes, shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-one cents; that the mil-reis of Madeira shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of one hundred cents; the mil-reis of the Azores shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of eighty-three and one third cents; the marc-banco of Hamburg shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of thirty-five cents; the rouble of Russia shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-five cents; the rupee of British India shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of forty-four and one half cents; and all former laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1843.


  1. Notes of the acts of Congress regulating the currency of foreign coins, vol. 2, 374.