Chapter LXXI. *regulating the value of certain foreign silver coins within the United States.*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the currency of foreign coins in the United States, vol. ii. p. 374
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Chap. LXXI.— An Act *regulating the value of certain foreign silver coins within the United States.*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the currency of foreign coins in the United States, vol. ii. p. 374.June 25, 1834. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of June 28, 1834, ch. 96. Certain silver coin to pass by tale. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That from and after the passage of this act, the following silver coins shall be of the legal value, and shall pass current as money within the United States, by tale, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rate of one hundred cents the dollar, that is to say, the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chili, and Central America, of not less weight than four hundred and fifteen grains each, and those re-stamped in Brazil of the like weight, of not less fineness than ten ounces fifteen pennyweights of pure silver, in the troy pound of twelve ounces of standard silver: and the five franc pieces of France, when of not less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weight of standard silver, and weighing not less than three hundred and eighty-four grains each at the rate of ninety-three cents each.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be [the] duty of the Assays of such coin to be made at the mint once in every year. Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the aforesaid silver coins, 682TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 72, 74. 1834. made current by this act, to be had at the mint of the United States at least once in every year, and to make report of the result thereof to Congress. Approved, June 25, 1834.