Chapter CIX. *to authorize the Coinage of Gold Dollars and Double Eagles.* March 3, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there shall be, Coinage of double eagles and gold dollars authorized.from time to time, struck and coine
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Chap. CIX.— An Act *to authorize the Coinage of Gold Dollars and Double Eagles.* March 3, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there shall be, Coinage of double eagles and gold dollars authorized.from time to time, struck and coined at the mint of the United States, and the branches thereof, conformably in all respects to law, (except that on the reverse of the gold dollar the figure of the eagle shall be omitted,) and conformably in all respects to the standard for gold coins now established by law, coins of gold of the following denominations and values, viz,; double eagles, each to be of the value of twenty dollars, or units, and gold dollars, each to be of the value of one dollar, or unit.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, for all sums whatever, the Double eagle and gold dollar to be legal tenders. double eagle shall be a legal tender for twenty dollars, and the gold dollar shall be a legal tender for one dollar. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That all laws now in force in All laws now in force in relation to the coins of the U. States to apply to the coins herein authorized.relation to the coins of the United States, and the striking and coining the same, shall, so far as applicable, have full force and effect in relation to the coins herein authorized, whether the said laws are penal or otherwise; and whether they are for preventing counterfeiting or debasement, for protecting the currency, for regulating and guarding the process of striking and coining, and the preparations therefor, or for the security of the coin, or for any other purpose.
Sec. 4, *And be it further enacted,* That, in adjusting the weights Weights of gold coins. 398 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 110. 1849.of gold coins henceforward, the following deviations from the standard weight Shall not he exceeded in any of the single pieces—namely, in the double eagle, the eagle, and the half eagle, one half of a grain, and in the quarter eagle, and gold dollar, one quarter of a grain; and that, in weighing a large number of pieces together, when delivered from the chief coiner to the treasurer, and from the treasurer to the deposit ors, the deviation from the standard weight shall not exceed three pennyweights in one thousand double eagles; two pennyweights in one thousand eagles; one and one half pennyweights in one thousand half eagles; one pennyweight in one thousand quarter eagles; and one half of a pennyweight in one thousand gold dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1849.