ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LXIII 



provided for, from which there shall be coined at the mints of the 

 United States silver dollars of the legal weight and fineness to the nmii. 

 ber of lif ty thousand pieces, to be known as the Lafayette dollar, struck 

 in commemoration of the erection of a monument to General Lafayette, 

 in the city of Paris, France, by the youth of the L^nited States, the 

 devices and designs upon which coins shall lie prescribed l)y the Di- 

 rector of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, 

 and all provisions of law, relative to the coinage, and legal tender 

 quality, of the present silver dollars shall be applicable to the coins 

 issued under this Act, and when so coined, there is hereb}^ appropriated 

 from the Treasury the said tifty thousand of souvenir dollars, and the 

 Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to place the same at the dis- 

 posal of the Lafayette Memorial Commission, a commission organized 

 under the direction and authorit}^ of the Commissioner-General for the 

 "United States to the Paris Exposition of nineteen hundred. (Sundry 

 Civil Act for 1900, approved March 3, 1899. Statutes XXX, 1117). 



