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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · May 31, 1878 · Chapter 146

Chapter 146.

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CHAP. 146.— AN ACT to forbid the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes.May 31, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Legal-tender notes; retirement of, forbidden. That from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury or other officer under him to cancel or retire any more of the United States legal-tender notes. And when any of said notes may be redeemedReissue. or be received into the Treasury under any law from any source whatever and shall belong to the United States, they shall not be retired cancelled or destroyed but they shall be reissued and paid out again and kept in circulation: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall prCh.bit the cancellation*Proviso.* and destruction of mutilated notes and the issue of other notes of like denomination in their stead, as now provided by law.
All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, May 31, 1878.
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