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FOREIGN COINS
(bouvier) | FOREIGN COINS, com. law. The money of foreign nations.
2. Congress have, from time to time, regulated the rates at which
certain foreign coins should pass. The acts now in force are the following.
3. The act of June 25, 1834, 4 Shaisw. Cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2373,
enacts, sec. 1. That from and after the passage of this act, the following
silver coins shall be of the legal value and shall pass current as money
within the United States, by tale, for the payment of all debts and demands,
at the rate of one hundred cents the dollar, that is to say, the dollars of
Mexico, Peru, Chili,.and Central America, of not less weight than four
hundred and fifteen grains each, and those re-stamped in Brazil of the like
weight, of not less fineness than ten ounces, fifteen pennyweights of pure
silver, in the troy pound of twelve ounces of standard silver; and five
franc pieces of France, when of not less fineness than ten ounces and
sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weight of standard silver, and
weighing not less than three hundred and eighty-four grains each, at the
rate of ninety-three cents each.
4. The act of June 28, 1834, 4 Sharsw. Cont. of Story's L. U. S, 2377,
enacts) sect. 1. That from and after the thirty-first day of July next, the
following gold coins shall pass current as money within the United States,
and be receivable in all payments, by weight, for the payment of all debts
and demands, at the rates following, that is to say: the gold coins of Great
Britain and Portugal and Brazil, of not less than twenty-two, carats fine,
at the rate of ninety-four cents and eight-tenths of a cent per pennyweight;
the gold coins of France nine-tenths fine, at the rate of ninety-three cents
and one-tenth of a cent per pennyweight; and the gold coins of Spain,
Mexico, and Colombia, of the fineness of twenty carats three. grains and
seven-sixteenths, of a grain, at the rates of eighty-nine events and nine-
tenths of a cent per pennyweight.
5. By the act of. March 3, 1823, 3 Story's L. U. S. 1923, it is
enacted, sect. 1. 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, and 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.
6. The act of March 2, 1 799, 1 Story's L. U. S. 573, to regulate the
collection of duties on imports and tonnage, sect. 61, p. 626, enacts, That
the ad valorem rates of duty upon goods, wares, and merchandise, at the
place of importation, shall be estimated by adding twenty per cent to the
actual costs thereof, if imported from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any
place beyond the same; and ten per cent. on the actual cost thereof, if
imported from any other place or country, including all charges;
commissions, outside packages, and insurance, only excepted. That all
foreign coins and currencies shall be estimated at the following rates; each
pound sterling of Great Britain, at four dollars and forty-four cents; each
livre tournois of France, at eighteen and a half cents; each florin, or
guilder of the United Netherlands, at forty cents; each marc-banco of
Hamburg, at thirty-three and one-third cents; each rix dollar of Denmark, at
one hundred cents: each rial of plate, and each rial o vellon, of Spain, the
former at ten cents, the latter at five cents, each; each milree of
Portugal, at one dollar and twenty-four cents; each pound sterling of
Ireland, at four dollars and ten cents; each tale o China, at one dollar and
forty-eight cents; each pagoda of India, at one dollar and ninety four
cents; each rupee, of Bengal, at fifty-five cents and one half; and all
other denominations of money, in value as nearly as may be to the said
rates, or the intrinsic value thereof, compared with money of the United
States: Provided, that it shall be lawful for the president of the United
States to cause to be established fit and proper regulations for estimating
the duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United
States, in respect to which the original cost shall be exhibited in a
depreciated currency, issued and circulated under authority of any foreign
government.
7. By the act of July 14 1832, s 16, 4 Sharsw. Cont. of Story's L. U.
S. 2326, the law is changed as to the value of the pound sterling, in
calculating the rates of duties. It is thereby enacted, that from and after
the said third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in
calculating the rate of duties, the pound sterling shall be considered and
taken as of the value of four dollars and eighty cents.
8. The act of March 3, 1843, provides, That in all computations of the
value of foreign moneys of account at the custom houses of the United
States, the thaler of Prussia shall be deemed and taken to be of the value
of sixty-eight and one-half cents; the mii-reis of Portugal shall be deemed
and taken to be of the value of one hundred and twelve cents; the rix dollar
of Bremen shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-eight and
three quarter cents; the thaler of Bremen, of seventy-two grotes, shall be
deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-one cents; that the mil-reis
of Madeira shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of one hundred
cents; the mil-reis of the Azores shall be deemed and taken to be of the
value of eighty-three and one-third cents; the marc-banco of Hamburg shall
be deemed and taken to be of the value, of thirty-five cents; the rouble of
Russia shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of seventy-five cents;
the rupee of British India shall be deemed and taken to be of the value of
forty-four and one half cents; and all former laws inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed.
9. And the act of May 22, 1846, further directs, That in all
computations at the custom-house, the foreign coins and money of account
herein specified shall be estimated as follows, to wit: The specie dollar of
Sweden and Norway, at one hundred and six cents. The specie dollar of
Denmark, at one hundred and five cents. The thaler of Prussia and of the
Northern States of Germany, at sixty-nine cents. The florin of the Southern
States of Germany, at forty cents. The florin of the Austrian empire, and of
the city of Augsburg, at forty-eight and one half cents. The lira of the
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, and the lira of Tuscany, at sixteen cents. The
franc of France, and of Belgium, and the lira of Sardinia, at eighteen cents
six mills. The ducat of Naples, at eighteen cents. The ounce of Sicily, at
two dollars and forty cents. The pound of the British provinces of Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Canada, at four dollars. And all
laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.
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