Volume 73 · 110
Public Law 86–65
To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the State of Colorado and in commemoration of the establishment of the United States Air Force Academy.
Approved June 23, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the State of Colorado and in commemoration of the establishment of the United States Air Force Academy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the State of Colorado and in commemoration of the establishment of the United States Air Force Academy, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to strike and furnish to the Colorado Rush to the Rockies Centennial Commission not more than ten thousand silver medals, one and five-sixteenths inches in diameter, with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined solely by the Secretary of the Treasury. The medals shall be made and delivered at such times as may be requested by the Commission in quantities of not less than twenty-five hundred, out no medals shall be made after December 31, 1959.
The medals shall be considered to be national medals within the meaning of section 3551 of the Revised Statutes.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause such medals
Cost.
to be struck and furnished at not less than the estimated cost of manufacture, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and over-head expenses; and security satisfactory to the Director of the Mint shall be furnished to indemnify the United States for the full payment of such cost.
Upon authorization from the Colorado Rush to the Rockies
Duplicates.
Commission, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause duplicates in silver of such medal to be coined and sold, under such regulations as he may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof (including labor).
Approved June 23, 1959.