Chapter VI. *to suspend further Reduction of the Currency.*Feb. 4, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Power of Secretary of Treasury to reduce currency by, &c. suspended
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CHAP. VI.— An Act *to suspend further Reduction of the Currency.*Feb. 4, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Power of Secretary of Treasury to reduce currency by, &c. suspended.That from and after the passage of this act, the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make any reduction of the currency, by retiring or cancelling United States Mutilated United States notes, may be replaced.notes, shall be, and is hereby, suspended; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the cancellation and destruction of mutilated United States notes, and the replacing of the same with notes of the same character and amount.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Indorsed by the President: “Received January 23, 1868.” [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]