Chapter XCII. *to fix the value of certain foreign moneys of account, in computations at the custom-houses.*(*a*)(*a*) Notes of the acts of Congress regulating the currency of foreign coins, vol. 2, 374
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Chap. XCII.— An Act *to fix the value of certain foreign moneys of account, in computations at the custom-houses.*(*a*)(*a*) Notes of the acts of Congress regulating the currency of foreign coins, vol. 2, 374.March 3, 1843. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in all computations 1845, ch. 45. Value of certain foreign moneys al the custom-houses.of the value of foreign moneys of account at the custom-houses of the United States, the thaler of Prussia shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of sixty-eight and one half cents; the mil-reis of Portugal shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of one hundred and twelve cents; the rix-dollar of Bremen shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-eight and three-quarter cents; the thaler of Bremen, of seventy-two grotes, shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-one cents; that the mil-reis of Madeira shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of one hundred cents; the mil-reis of the Azores shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of eighty-three and one third cents; the marc-banco of Hamburg shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of thirty-five cents; the rouble of Russia shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-five cents; the rupee of British India shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of forty-four and one half cents; and all former laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1843.