As many of the countries furnish no bullion to the common stock, the surplus production of our mines and mints might thus be utilized and a step taken toward the general remonetization of silver.
In further connection with the Treasury Department I would recommend a revision and codification of the tariff laws and the opening of moremints for coining money, with authority to coin for such nations as may apply.
It forbids him from preventing frauds upon the customs service, from investigating irregularities in branch mints and assay offices, and has seriously crippled him.
These advantages will be more apparent in the course of the next year, when the branch mints authorized to be established in North Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana shall have gone into operation.
The mintsto flavor were horsemint, spearmint, peppermint, catmint, and heartmint.
In many an old garret now bare of such stores "mints still perfume the air;" the very walls exhale "the homesick smell of dry forgotten herbs.
The proceedings at the mints were unsystematic, and I resolved upon an attempt to codify the laws and to place the administration in the hands of a recognized, responsible officer.
In old time we had sundrie mints in England, and those commonlie kept in abbaies and religious houses before the conquest, where true dealing was commonlie supposed most of all to dwell: as at Ramseie, S.
No considerable amount of United States notes have been presented for redemption, while very large sums of gold bullion, both domestic and imported, are taken to the mints and exchanged for coin or notes.
Since then there has been provision for mints at San Francisco, Denver, and Carson City.
Indeed, if we repair to France, where the mints have been in times past so numerous, we find that these advantages have not been denied.
Compare this sum with the paltry yield at Charlotte or Dahlonega, where mints were established and maintained down to the Rebellion.
The eminent French authority to whom I have already referred, Dumas, was in the habit of ridiculing the expensive mints constructed in France.
If we look further at the mints of Charlotte and Dahlonega, it is easy to see how every consideration of economy was against them.
What we all can see now, power harnessed by inventions into monstrous manufactories, costing mints of gold, paying out mints of gold in return, costing more than half a century of time and labor.
Act closing the Indian mints to the coinage of silver on private account.
If there had been, at the existing level of prices, a rapidly expanding demand for currency at the time when the Mints were closed, the measures actually taken might very well have proved immediately successful.
We also consider that, at the same time, the Indian mints should be thrown open to the unrestricted coinage of gold on terms and conditions such as govern the three Australian branches of the Royal Mint.
For some years after the closing of the Mints no fresh coinage was undertaken.
This Hugh Brise was keeper of the king's mints at London.
A few exceptions were made to the law, but all private mints were supposed to be under the direct superintendence of crown officials.
The adulteration practised in the baronial mints had reduced coins, which pretended to be of silver, into an alloy which was principally composed of a bastard copper.
The present officers, the present mints, and one or two more mints in the South, in the West, and in the North, complete the plan.
Betsey made all of the different kinds of fondants intomints by simply rolling a portion of each to one fourth inch in thickness, then cutting them out with her little round cutter.
These Betsey made like the plain creammints and other cream mints.
Oil of Mints is made of the herb and oil omphacine, as oil of Roses.
Pliny adds, that Pennyroyal and Mints together, help faintings, being put into vinegar, and smelled unto, or put into the nostrils or mouth.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit herewith the annual report of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, showing the operation of the Mint and branch mints for the year 1850.
To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the annual report of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, exhibiting the operations of the Mint and branch mints for the past year.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit herewith the report of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, showing the operation of the Mint and branch mints for the year 1845.
To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit herewith the annual report of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, showing the operations of the Mint and branch mints for the year 1848.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit herewith the annual report of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, showing the operation of the Mint and branch mints for the year 1847.
A proof of this will be found by examining the official reports of the mints of the United States.
The coinage of the imperial period, freely given to the towns in copper, allows us a certain glance at this abundance; no province can even remotely vie with Asia in the number of mints and the variety of the representations.
There were as many as forty or fifty private mints constantly at work, either in London or in the principal country towns.
Assays requested by the Commission of the Paris Mint, from the assayers of the principal Royal Mints in Europe, to which the same alloys, synthetically compounded, were sent, afforded the results inscribed in the following table.
I may mention that formerly anyone could take bullion or ornaments in silver to the mints and change them for rupees.
Gold to be received at the mints at a ratio of 1s.
In a subsequent part of his speech Sir David Barbour states "that an arrangement for the receipt of gold at the mints at a ratio of 1s.
We will preserve and defend the ancient tolls and mints which have been granted to their churches, neither infringing these rights ourselves nor permitting anyone else to do so.
We will never grant any new tolls or new mints within the territory or jurisdiction of any one of the princes except by his consent and desire.
In addition to its famous mints Winchester was the chief trading centre of this part of England during mediaeval days.
The mints established on the site by Athelstan were noted for the excellence of the coinage made there.
The campaign was comin' to an ind, an' all the rig'mints was bein' drawn together for to be sint back home.
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