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Volume 21

Public Law 46–33

to establish an assay-office in the city of Saint Louis Missouri.

Approved February 1, 1881

Statutory text

An Act

to establish an assay-office in the city of Saint Louis Missouri.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to establish an assay-office at Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri; the said office to be conducted under the provisions of an act entitled “An act revising and amending the laws relative to the mints, assay-offices, and coinage of the United States,” approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

Sec. 2.

That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and

Appropriation.

directed to set apart sufficient room for said assay-office in the Government buildingin Saint Louis, now used for a post-office and Customhouse, and provide the same with the necessary fixtures and apparatus, at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 1, 1881.

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