Volume 80 · 119
Public Law 89–393
To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Alaska by the United States from Russia.
Approved April 14, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Alaska by the United States from Russia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in commemoration
Alaska.
100th anniversary medals.
of the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Alaska by the United States from Russia (which anniversary will be celebrated in 1967), the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to strike and furnish to the Alaska Centennial Commission not more than two hundred thousand medals with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Alaska Centennial Commission subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. The medals shall be made and delivered at such times as may be required by the Commission in quantities of not less than two thousand, but no medals shall be made after December 31, 1967. The medals shall be considered to be national medals within the meaning of section 3551 of the Revised Statutes.
Cost.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause such medals to be struck and furnished at not less than the estimated cost of manufacture; including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses; and security satisfactory to the Director of the Mint shall be furnished to indemnify the United States for full payment of such costs.
Sec. 3.
The medals authorized to be issued pursuant to this Act shall
Sizes, materials.
be of such size or sizes and of such metals as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with such Commission.
Approved April 14, 1966.