Thomas Jefferson Act of Congress Signed as Secretary of State, January 14th, 1793,
Second Congress of the USA (1743-1826)
As Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson amended a earlier Act, “establishing a Mint and regulating the Money of the USA,” establishing the copper weight specs for the first US money issued in 1793 – the Cent and Half Cent. This generally is a doc from our assortment on the Monetary System of the World, establishes the start of the US dollar authorizing the first downside of the coinage of the USA. It’s distinctive and of enormous historic significance.
The first copper money created by the model new United States of America had been launched into circulation in March of 1793. This doc is signed “Th’ Jefferson” as Secretary of State and countersigned (in sort) by George Washington as President, John Adams as Vice President and President of the Senate, and Jonathan Trumbull as Speaker of the Dwelling of Representatives.
“Second Congress of the USA: On the Second Session, begun and held on the Metropolis of Philadelphia, throughout the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the fifth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. An act establishing a Mint, and regulating the money of the USA, so far as respects the Coinage of Copper.”
“Be it enacted by the Senate and Dwelling of Representatives of the USA of America in Congress assembled, That every cent shall comprise 200 and eight grains of copper, and every half cent shall comprise 100 and 4 grains of copper; and that a number of the act ‘An act establishing a mint, and regulating the money of the USA,’ as respects the load of cents and half cents, shall be, and the similar is hereby repealed…. Approved January fourteenth 1793…”
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