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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · February 12, 1862 · Chapter XX

Chapter XX. *to authorize an additional Issue of United States Notes.* February 12, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the $10,000,000 of demand notes to be issued, &c. 1801, ch. 5 & 46.*Ante*, pp. 259, 31

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Chap. XX.— An Act *to authorize an additional Issue of United States Notes.* February 12, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the $10,000,000 of demand notes to be issued, &c. 1801, ch. 5 & 46.*Ante*, pp. 259, 313.Treasury, in addition to the fifty millions of notes payable on demand of denominations not less than five dollars, heretofore authorized by the acts of July seventeenth and August Glib, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue like notes, and for like purposes, to the amount of ten millions of dollars, and said notes shall *Post*, p. 370.be deemed part of the loan of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars authorized by said acts.
Approved, February 12, 1862.
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