Chapter 91. To authorize the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union
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CHAP. 91.— An Act To authorize the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union. June 1, 1918.[[H. R. 8764](/us/bill/65/hr/8764).][[Public, No. 163](/us/65/pl/163).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Illinois centennial.Silver fifty-cent pieces to be coined in commemoration of.Number. That, as soon as practicable, and in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union as a State, there shall be coined at the mints of the United States, silver fifty-cent pieces to the number of one hundred thousand, such fifty-cent pieces to be of the standard troy weight, composition, diameter, device, and design, as shall be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Legal tender.Secretary of the Treasury, and said fifty-cent pieces shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value.
Sec. 2. Coinage laws made applicable. That all laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver coins of the United States and the coining or striking of the same, regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material, and for the transportation, distribution, and redemption of the coins, for the prevention of debasement or counterfeiting, for security of the coin, or for any other purpose, whether said laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the coinage *Proviso*.No expense for dies, etc.herein authorized: *Provided*, That the Government shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage.
Approved, June 1, 1918.