United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 53
Chap. LIII.—An Act making the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, receivable in payments on account of public lands.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 50.
Gold coins of Great Britain, Portugal, France, and Spain, to be received in payment on account of lands.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, the following gold coins shall be received in all payments on account of public lands, at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise, viz: the gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-seven grains, or eighty-eight cents and eight-ninths per pennyweight: the gold coins of France, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-seven and a half grains, or eighty-seven and a quarter cents per pennyweight: and the gold coins of Spain of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents for every twenty-eight and a half grains, or eighty-four cents per pennyweight.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays to be made annually at the mint.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the foregoing coins to be made at the mint of the United States, at least once in every year; and to make report of the result thereof to Congress.
Approved, March 3, 1823.