DATE: February 2, 1793

TOWN: Boston, Massachusetts

SOURCE: Columbian Centinel

AN ACT

An Act to amend an act, entitled "An act establishing a Mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States," so far as respects the Coinage of Copper.

BE it enacted by the SENATE and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That every cent shall contain two hundred and eight grains of copper, and every half cent shall contain one hundred and four grains of copper; and that so much of the act, entitled "An act establishing a Mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States," as respects the weight of cents and half cents, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate.

APPROVED, January fourteenth, 1793

Go. WASHINGTON, President of the United States

Deposited among the Rolls in the office of the Secretary of State.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State

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