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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 46 STAT. · February 20, 1931 · Chapter 237

Chapter 237. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and manufacture a medal in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, and of the establishment of the independence of the United States

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CHAP. 237.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and manufacture a medal in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, and of the establishment of the independence of the United States. February 20, 1931.[[S. 5677](/us/bill/71/s/5677).][[Public, No. 694](/us/pl/71/694).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Yorktown, Va.Medal authorized to commemorate 150th anniversary of Cornwallis’ surrender.
That in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, and of the establishment of the independence of the United States the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prepare and manufacture at the United States Mint at Philadelphia a medal from an appropriate design with devices, emblems, and inscriptions significant of this Manufacture, number.historic achievement, upon sufficient security being furnished to indemnify the Government of the cost thereof.
The medals herein authorized shall be manufactured, not to exceed five hundred Vol. 17, p. 432.thousand in number, subject to the provisions of section 52 of the Coinage Act of 1873, from suitable models to be supplied by the United States Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission. The medals Delivery.so prepared shall be delivered at the Philadelphia Mint to a designated agent of the United States Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission upon payment of the cost thereof. Approved, February 20, 1931.
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