Chapter 268.
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CHAP. 268.— AN ACT To amend sections thirty-five hundred and forty-eight and thirty-five hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to the standards for coinage. March 4, 1911. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section thirty-five hundredCoinage.and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, Weights at mints.and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec.3548.For the purpose of securing a due conformityStandard troy pound of Bureau of Standards recognized as authority.in weight of the coins of the United States to the provisions of the laws relating to coinage, the standard troy pound of the Bureau of Standards of the United States shall be the standard troy poundR. S., sec. 3548, p. 701, amended.of the Mint of the United States, conformably to which the coinage thereof shall be regulated.” Sec.2.That section thirty-five hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec.3549.It shall be the duty of the Director of the Mint to procure for each mint and assay office, to be kept safelyStandard weights at mints and assay offices to conform to Bureau of Standards troy pound.thereat, a series of standard weights corresponding to the standard troy pound of the Bureau of Standards of the United States, consisting of a one-pound weight and the requisite subdivisions and multiples thereof, from the hundredths part of a R. S., sec. 3549, p. 701, amended.grain to twenty-five pounds.
The troy weight ordinarily employed in the transactions of such mints and assay offices shall be regulatedInspection.according to the above1355standards at least once in every year, under the inspection of the superintendent and assayer; and the accuracy of those used at the Mint at Philadelphia shall be tested annually, in the presence of the assay commissioners, at the time of the annual examination and test of coins.” Approved, March 4, 1911.