Chapter 8. To repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes.”November 1, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State
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CHAP. 8.— An Act To repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes.”November 1, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Silver net.Direction to purchase silver repealed.Vol. 26, p. 289. That so much of the act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes,” as directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of four million five hundred thousand ounces, or so much thereof as may be offered in each month at the market price thereof, not exceeding one dollar for three hundred and seventy-one and twenty-five one-hundredths grains of pure silver, and to issue in payment for such purchases Treasury notes of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
And it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to continue the use of both Gold and silver to be used as standard money.gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, such equality to be secured through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as will insure the maintenance of the parity in value of the Purity to be maintained.coins of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts.
And it is hereby further declared that the efforts of the Government should be steadily System of bimetallism.directed to the establishment of such a safe system of bimetallism as will maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar coined or issued by the United States, in the markets and in the payment of debts. Approved, November 1, 1893. Chapter 9: To amend an act entitled “An act to provide the times and places for holding terms of United States courts in the States of Idaho and Wyoming,” approved July five, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
Chapter 9 28 Stat. 5 1893-11-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-15 53 1 public FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. 1. CHS. 9, 111. 1893.5
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To repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes.”November 1, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State
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