Chapter 153. To authorize the coinage of a 50-cent piece in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Missouri into the Union
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CHAP. 153.— An Act To authorize the coinage of a 50-cent piece in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Missouri into the Union. March 4, 1921. [[S. 4893](/us/bill/66/s/4893).] [[Public, No. 381](/us/pl/66/381).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in commemoration of Missouri centennial.Silver 50-cent pieces to be coined in commemorationof.Number.the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Missouri into the Union there shall be coined at the mints of the United States 50-cent pieces to the number of two hundred and fifty thousand, such 50-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 Secretary of the Treasury, which said 50-cent Legal tender.pieces shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face Value.
Sec. 2. That all laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver Coinage laws made applicable. 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 purposes, whether said laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply to *Proviso.*No expense for dies etc.the coinage herein authorized: *Provided,* That the United States shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage.
Approved, March 4, 1921.