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374 NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 22. 1806. such damages, as shall be legally assessed, with costs of suit; for which Execution; execution may issue for such party in due form, and in case such party my *”"° °¤ shall fail to recover in the suit, judgment shall be rendered and execu- J°dgm°ms’ &°' tion may issue for costsin favour of the defendant or defendants against the party who shall have instituted the suit; and the United States shall in no case be liable for the same. Bonds to ,8. Sue. 3. And ba it further enacted, That the said bonds shall, after ¤{¤=*i¤ ¤¤ *1 §¤¤¤- any judgment or judgments rendered thereon, remain as a security, for QV °“ ]“dg‘ the benefit of any person, persons or body politic, injured by breach of cntsrendered, _ , . ’ ste. the condition of the same, untnl the whole penalty shall have been recovered; and the proceedings shall be always in the same manner, and as herein before directed. Within what Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all suits on marshals’ bonds, I>°*i°d Suits me il' the right of action has already accrued, shall be commenced and pm.
- °;db°&;?mm°H` secuted within three years after the passage of this act, and not after.
’ wards. And all such suits, in case the right of action shall accrue hereafter, shall be commenced and prosecuted within six years alter the said _ Saving of the right of action shall have accrued, and not afterwards; saving, neverthe- _{,;§l"’°"’“‘““'S» less, the rights of inlants,feme caverts, and persons rtorrcompvs mmtis,so ` that they sue within three years after their disabilities are removed. Approved, April I0, 1806. STATUT1: I. 1--- Ami IO, gg0g_ Ch.u=.XXII.-An Ant regulating the currency of foreign coins in the United ——·———- »S?1ztes.(a) Fowign gold Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United und silver coins S/atcs of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the pas-
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,;,,,0,,,jné ,ms, within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands, at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise, viz; Coins and rates. The gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents, for every twenty-seven grains of the actual weight thereof; the gold coins of France, Spain, and the dominions of Spain, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents, for every twenty-seven grains and two-fifths of a grain, of the actual weight thereof Spanish milled dollars, at the rate of one hundred centsfor each, the actual weight whereof shall not be less than seventeen pennyweights and seven grains, and in proportion for the parts of a dollar. Crowns of France at the rate of one hundred and ten cents, for each crown, the actual weight whereof shall not be less than eighteen pcnnyweights and seventeen grains, and in proportion for _ Secretary or the parts of a crown. And it shall he the duty of the Secretary of the
:5 Treasury, to cause assays of the foreign gold and silver coins made curuw gbmign rent by this act, to be had at the mint of the United States, at least once
agri; im; 3:138 in every year, and to'make report of the result thereof to- Congress, for &c_ andwmnk; the purpose of enabling them to make such alterations m this act, as mmm of th., may become requisite, from the real standard value of such foreign coins. result to Con- And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause assays gm"' of the foreign gold and silver coins of the description made current by this act, which shall issue subsequently to the passage of this act, and shall circulate in the United States, at the mint aforesaid, at least once in every year, and to make report of the result thereof to Congress, for the purpose of enabling Congress to make such coins current, if they shall deem the same to be proper, at their real standard value. (rz) See act of August 4, 1790, see. 39, vol. i. 167. An act relative to the rix dollar of Denmark, March 3, 1791, chap. 19, vol. 1. 215. An act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes, Februar 9, 1793, vol. i. 300. All act supplementary to “ an act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes," February 1, 1798, chap. ll, vol. 1. 539. An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799, chap. 22, sec. 61, vol. i. 673.
