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 [House Bill, No. .] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— January 28, 1863.— Read 
 
 fir^ and second times, referred to Committee of AVays and Means, 
 and ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Lyons.] 
 
 J^ BILL 
 
 To provide for funding the currency of the Confederate States. 
 
 1 Section 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States of America do 
 
 2 enact, That all notes^ of the Confederate States Government now 
 
 3 in circulation, which are, or will hereafter be fundable in bonds 
 
 4 bearing interest at the rate^of seven per cent, per annum, and 
 
 5 payable six months after peace, shall be funded in the bonds of 
 
 6 the Confederate States, payable in like manner and bearing the 
 
 7 same rate of interest. 
 
 1 Sec. 2. All notes of the description aforesaid, which shall not 
 
 2 be presented to the treasurer at Richmond, or to some sub- 
 
 3 treasurer of the Confederate States at his place of business, in 
 
 4 sums not less than one hundred dollars, on or before the first day 
 
 5 of. July next shall cease to pass as currency, or be receivable in 
 6 " payment of any debt or demand except debts and taxes due to 
 7 the Confederate States. 
 
1 Sec. 3. Be it fu.i/ier enacted, That the Secretaiy of the 
 
 2 Treasury shall cause to be prepared the requisite number of 
 
 3 bonds to fund the said notes, which shall bear the date of the 
 
 4 issue of said notes, and be payable to the bearer with seven per 
 
 5 cent, interest, six months after peace has been established, iu 
 
 6 such sums not less than one hundred dollars, as to him may seem 
 
 7 to be expedient, and to issue the same to the holders of the notes 
 
 8 aforesaid, who shall bring in the said notes, and he shall irnme- 
 
 9 diately give notice through the public newspapers of this act, and 
 
 10 of the various points at which the said notes may be exchanged 
 
 1 1 for bonds. 
 
 1 Sec. 4. If any person shall pass or attempt to pass as currency 
 
 2 any of the notes before mentioned after the first day of July 
 
 3 next, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon; 
 
 4 conviction, forfeit the notes passed or oiFered to the use of the 
 
 5 informer, in addition to the costs of recovery. 
 
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