Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 533.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
June 14, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
To alter and amend the act entitled “an act for the punish-
ment of counterfeiting the current coin of the United
States, and for other purposes.”

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10 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the words “as true” be, and the same
are hereby, stricken out of the first section of the act of
Congress, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred
and six, entitled “an act for the punishment of counter-
feiting the current coin of the United States, and for
other purposes;” so that the penalties provided in the
said section shall apply, and be enforced, against any
person who shall utter any false, forged, or counterfeited

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14 coins of gold or silver, therein referred to, for the pay-
ment of money, with intention to defraud any person or
persons, knowing the same to be falsely made, forged, or
counterfeited.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the words “as true” be, and the same are hereby, stricken out of the first section of the act of Congress, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and six, entitled “an act for the punishment of counter- feiting the current coin of the United States, and for other purposes;” so that the penalties provided in the said section shall apply, and be enforced, against any person who shall utter any false, forged, or counterfeited
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11 12 13 14	coins of gold or silver, therein referred to, for the pay- ment of money, with intention to defraud any person or persons, knowing the same to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited.