Chapter 186. Relating to Hawaiian silver coinage and silver certificates
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CHAP. 186.— An Act Relating to Hawaiian silver coinage and silver certificates. January 14, 1903.[[Public, No. 25](/us/pl/57/25).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and Jfov.se of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.*, Hawaiian silver coins.Receivable for government dues.That the silver coins that were coined under the laws of Hawaii, when the same are not mutilated or abraded below the standard of circulation, shall be received at the par of their face value in payment of all dues to the government of the Territory of Hawaii and of the United States, and the same shall not again be put into circulation, but they shall be recoined in the mints as United States coins.
Sec. 2. To be recoined in United States subsidiary coins.That when such coins have been received by either Government they shall be transmitted to the mint at San Francisco, in sums of not less than five hundred dollars, to be recoined into subsidiary 771silver coins ofExpense of transportation. the United States, the expense of transportation to be paid by the United States. Sec. 3. That any collector of customs or ofExchange for Uni ted States coins. internal revenue of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands shall, if he is so directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, exchange standard silver coins of the United States that are in his custody as such collector with the government of Hawaii, or with any person desiring to make such exchange, for coins of the government of Hawaii, at their face value when the same are not abraded below the lawful standard of circulation, and the Treasurer of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to deposit such silver coins of the United States as shall be necessary with the collector of customs or of internal revenue at Honolulu or at any Government depository for the purpose of making such exchange under such regulations as he may prescribe.
Sec. 4. That any silver coins struck by thePayment for mutilated coins. government of Hawaii that are mutilated or abraded below such standard may be presented for recoinage at any mint in the United States by the person owning the same, or his or her agents, in sums of not less than fifty dollars, and such owner shall be paid for such coins by the superintendent of the mint the bullion value per troy ounce of the tine silver they contain in standard silver coin of the United States, and such bullion shall be coined into subsidiary coinage of the United States.
Sec. 5. That silver coins heretofore struck byTo be legal tender until January 1,1904. the government of Hawaii shall continue to be legal tender for debts in the Territory of Hawaii, in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Hawaii, until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four, and not afterwards. Sec. 6. That any silver certificates heretoforeRedemption of silver certificates. issued by the government of the Hawaiian Islands, intended to be circulated as money, shall be redeemed by the Territorial government of Hawaii on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and five, and after said date it shall be unlawful to circulate the same as money.
Sec. 7. That nothing in this Act contained shallLimitation of United States liability. bindthe United States to redeem any silver certificates issued by the government of Hawaii, or any silver coin issued by such government, except in the manner and upon the conditions stated in this Act for the recoinage of Hawaiian silver. Sec. 8. That the sum of ten thousand dollars, orAppropriation for transporting coins. so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, from any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the expenses of transporting said coins from the Hawaiian Islands to the mint at San Francisco, and a return of a like amount in the subsidiary coins of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands.
Approved, January 14, 1903.