Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Amendment Proposed by the Committee on Finance, to the Bill (H.R. 229) to Provide More Effectually for the Reduction and Redemption of the Currency.

Amendment Proposed by the Committee on Finance,
to the Bill (H.R. 229) to Provide
More Effectually for the Reduction and Redemption of the Currency:
Electronic Edition.

Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance.

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(title page) Amendment Proposed by the Committee on Finance, to the Bill (H.R. 229) to Provide More Effectually for the Reduction and Redemption of the Currency.
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AMENDMENT

Proposed by the Committee on Finance, to the Bill (H. R. 229) to provide
more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency.

1 Strike out Section 2, and insert in lieu thereof, as follows:
2 "SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby
3 directed and required, whenever, in his judgment, the exigencies
4 of the Government will permit, to cancel from time to
5 time such an amount of Treasury notes as may be received
6 into the Treasury, until the amount outstanding shall have been
7 reduced to two hundred millions of dollars."

1 Strike out all of Section 5 after the word Treasury, in the
2 12th line.

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