The Monetary History of Gold | A Documentary History, 1660-1999 | Mark

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The Monetary History of Gold

ABSTRACT

This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the present, covering specifically the rise of the gold standard, its heyday, and the period following.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |154 pages

The Rise of the Gold Standard, 1660–1819

chapter |4 pages

The Rise of the Gold Standard, 1660–1819

chapter |1 pages

21 May 1660: Resolution of the House of Commons to prohibit the Exportation of Money and Bullion from England

chapter |2 pages

11 December 1660: Excerpt from a Report of His Majesty's Council of Trade advocating to the King the Execution of Provisions enabling the free Exportation of Gold and Silver from England

chapter |2 pages

20 December 1662: ‘An Act to prevent the Inconvenience arising by melting the Silver Coin of this Realm'

chapter |5 pages

19 May 1663: Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys

chapter |1 pages

1 August 1663: Excerpt from ‘An Act for the Encouragement of Trade'

chapter |3 pages

20 December 1666: ‘An Act for Encourageing of Coynage'

chapter |5 pages

12–13 June, 19–20 June, 10–12 October 1667: Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys

chapter |1 pages

1672 [undated]: ‘An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage'

chapter |2 pages

1674 [undated]: Statement issued by the English Government in Response to Reports about large Amounts of Bullion exported from England by the East India Company

chapter |5 pages

1676 [undated]: ‘The Mystery of the new fashioned Goldsmiths or Bankers: their Rise, Growth, State, and Decay, discovered in a Merchant's Letter to a Country Gent who desired to bind his Son Apprentice to a Goldsmith'

chapter |2 pages

9 April 1690: Note of a Petition from London Goldsmiths to the House of Commons, complaining that the Exportation of large Quantities of Silver from England into France was placing an undue Burden upon them

chapter |2 pages

8 May 1690: House of Commons Committee Report issued in Response to the Petition of the previous Month from the Working Goldsmiths of London concerning the Exportation of large Quantities of Silver from England to France and the undue Burden that this was placing upon Working Goldsmiths

chapter |3 pages

6 December 1690: ‘Observations on the Bill against the Exportation of Gold and Silver, and melting down the Coin of the Realm', delivered at the Bar of the House of Lords by a Group of prominent London Merchants, led by James Houblon, MP, who authored the Paper, and including, among Others, his Son Sir John Houblon, who later became the first Governor of the Bank of England

chapter |1 pages

30 December 1691: Excerpt from the Parliamentary Diary of Narcissus Luttrell on the Debate in the House of Commons over a Bill for discouraging the Exportation of Bullion.

chapter |11 pages

1692 [undated]: Sir Dudley North's ‘Discourse of Coyned Money' and ‘Postscript’, from the same Author’s Discourses upon Trade

chapter |3 pages

25 April 1694: Bank of England Charter

chapter |2 pages

8 January 1695: Report to the House of Commons from the Committee appointed to consider Proposals for stemming both the Clipping of the Silver Coinage of England and the Exportation of Silver

chapter |4 pages

3 July 1695: ‘Representation to the Lords Justices from the Treasury Lords on the Price of Guineas', reporting that the high Price of Guineas in England has encouraged the Importation of large Quantities of Gold from abroad to the Loss of the Nation

chapter |2 pages

10 December 1695: Resolutions put forward in the Report of the Committee of the whole House, laying the Foundation for the Great Recoinage

chapter |2 pages

1695 [undated]: A short Paper on Guineas written by John Locke at the Request of Treasury Commissioner Sir William Trumbull in Connection with the Treasury Report of the 3rd of July 1695

chapter |6 pages

17 January 1696: An Act for Remedying the Ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom'

chapter |1 pages

15 February 1696: Resolution put forward in the Report of the Committee of the whole House, stating that no Guinea should pass for more than 28 Shillings

chapter |3 pages

24 February 1696: An Act for taking off the Obligation and Incouragement for Coining Guineas for a certaine Time therein mentioned'

chapter |1 pages

10 April 1696: ‘An Act to incourage the bringing Plate into the Mint to be Coined, and for the further Remedying the Ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom'

chapter |2 pages

23 October 1696: ‘An Act for Importing and Coining Guineas and Half-Guineas'

chapter |2 pages

19 September 1698: Correspondence of Isaac Newton, Warden of the Mint, dated from Jermin Street in Westminster, to John Locke

chapter |3 pages

22 September 1698: Report of the Board of Trade

chapter |2 pages

c.1700: Excerpts from Hopton Haynes's ‘Brief Memoire relating to the Silver and Gold Coins of England, with an Account of the Corruption of the hammered Moneys; and of the Reform of the Late Grand Coynage at the Tower and the five County Mints in the years 1696, 1697, 1698, and 1699'

chapter |1 pages

20 January 1701: Report of Isaac Newton, Master of the Mint, to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, concerning the high Value of French and Spanish Pistoles in England

chapter |1 pages

28 September 1701: Report of Isaac Newton to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, concerning edicts of the King of France relative to the Gold and Silver Coinage of France

chapter |3 pages

7 July 1702: Report of Isaac Newton to Sidney Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer of England, concerning the Values of various foreign Gold and Silver Coins

chapter |1 pages

1705 [undated]: Excerpt from John Law's famous tract Money and Trade Considered

chapter |1 pages

31 December 1710: Report of Sir Isaac Newton to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, concerning the Fineness of Gold Coins in Relation to the Trial Plate used in the Trial of the Pyx of 21 August 1710

chapter |4 pages

21 September 1717: Report of Sir Isaac Newton, Master of the Royal Mint, to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, on the Price and Relationship of Gold to Silver and the Consequences for the Coinage of the Kingdom

chapter |2 pages

22 December 1717: Royal Proclamation of King George I forbidding the Exchange of Guineas for more than 21s each and putting England on a bimetallic Standard

chapter |2 pages

31 December 1717: Anonymous Communication to Sir Isaac Newton in Response to the Publication, on the previous Day, of Newton's Report of the 21st of September to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury

chapter |3 pages

20 October 1718: Memorandum containing Sir Isaac Newton's Observations on the State of the Gold and Silver Coins

chapter |4 pages

22 March – 12 November 1720: Excerpts from the Correspondence of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath and MP (1705–42), to James Craggs, Secretary of State for Southern Affairs (1717–21), concerning the State of the Gold Coin in France

chapter |6 pages

1730 [undated]: Excerpts from John Conduitt's Treatise ‘Observations upon the present State of our Gold and Silver Coins'

chapter |5 pages

c.1734: Excerpt from Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General

chapter |2 pages

[1735] c. 1721: Excerpts from John Atkins's Account of his Travels along the west Coast of Africa, in the West Indies and Brazil in the early eighteenth Century

chapter |6 pages

2 April 1792: United States Coinage Act of 1792

chapter |2 pages

27 February 1797: Newspaper Account of a Council Decision to suspend Cash Payments by the Bank of England

chapter |1 pages

28 February 1797: Newspaper Account of a Message of the King, read before the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor on the preceding Day, suspending Cash Payments by the Bank of England

chapter |1 pages

28 February 1797: Newspaper Account of the Suspension of Cash Payments by the Bank of England

chapter |7 pages

8 June 1810: ‘Report, together with Minutes of Evidence, and Accounts, from the Select Committee on High Price of Gold Bullion'

chapter |2 pages

9 July 1811: ‘A Bill, intituled, an Act for making more effectual Provision for preventing the current Gold Coin of the Realm from being paid or accepted for a greater Value than the current Value of such Coin; for preventing any Note or Notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England from being received for any smaller Sum than the Sum therein specified; and for staying Proceedings upon any Distress by Tender of such Notes'

chapter |3 pages

20 March 1812: ‘A Bill, to continue and amend an Act of the Session of Parliament, for making more effectual Provision for preventing the current Gold Coin of the Realm from being paid or accepted for a greater Value than the current Value of such Coin, for preventing any Note or Bill of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England from being received for any smaller Sum than the Sum therein specified, and for staying Proceedings upon any Distress by Tender of such Notes; and to extend the same to Ireland'

chapter |4 pages

31 May 1816: ‘A Bill, to provide for the New Silver Coinage, and to regulate the Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of this Realm'

chapter |1 pages

5 April 1819: ‘First Report from the Secret Committee on the Expediency of the Bank resuming Cash Payments'

chapter |2 pages

19 May 1819: ‘Proposed Resolutions [on the Expediency of the Bank resuming Cash Payments]'

chapter |5 pages

21 May 1819: ‘Representation, agreed upon the 20th of May 1819, by the Directors of the Bank of England and laid before the Chancellor of the Exchequer [on the Expediency of the Bank resuming Cash Payments]'

chapter |166 pages

The Heyday of the Gold Standard, 1820–1930

chapter |5 pages

The Heyday of the Gold Standard, 1820–1930

chapter |1 pages

29 August 1833: Bank of England Act, 1833: ‘An Act, for giving to the Corporation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain Privileges, for a limited Period, under certain Conditions'

chapter |2 pages

27 June 1834: Coinage Act, 1834, United States: ‘An Act concerning the Gold Coins of the United States, and for other Purposes'

chapter |1 pages

28 June 1834: Foreign Coins Act, 1834, United States: ‘An Act regulating the Value of certain foreign Gold Coins within the United States'

chapter |1 pages

19 July 1844: Bank Charter Act, 1844: ‘An Act to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes, and for giving to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain Privileges for a limited Period'

chapter |2 pages

13 July 1849: ‘An Act to extend an Act of the Fifty-sixth year of King George the Third, for providing a new Silver Coinage, and for regulating the Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of this Realm'

chapter |3 pages

6 February 1866: The Trial of the Pyx: 'Statement of Proceedings at the Mint as to the Deposit of the Gold and Silver Coins in the Mint Pyx Boxes; and at Goldsmiths' Hall, in the Assay of the Gold and Silver Pieces, constituting the Public Trial of the Pyx; by Henry W. Field, Queen's Assay Master at Her Majesty's Mint'

chapter |1 pages

6 August 1866: Standards of Weights, Measures, and Coinage Act, 1866: ‘An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Standard Weights and Measures and to the Standard Trial Pieces of the Coin of the Realm'

chapter |5 pages

18 February 1868: Royal Commission on International Coinage: ‘Report from the Royal Commission on International Coinage; together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix'

chapter |4 pages

28 June 1869: ‘Report addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Master of the Mint and Colonel Smith, late Master of the Calcutta Mint, on the Mintage necessary to cover the Expenses of Establishing and Maintaining the Gold Currency'

chapter |10 pages

10 February 1870: Coinage Act, 1870: ‘A Bill, to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Coinage and Her Majesty's Mint'

chapter |12 pages

12 February 1873: Coinage Act, 1873, United States: An Act revising and amending the Laws relative to the Mints, Assay, Offices, and Coinage of the United States'

chapter |2 pages

14 January 1875: Specie Resumption Act, 1875, United States: ‘An Act to provide for the Resumption of Specie Payments'

chapter |7 pages

5 July 1876: ‘Report from the Select Committee on Depreciation of Silver; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix'

chapter |7 pages

27 November 1878: International Monetary Conference, 1878: ‘Report of the Commissioners appointed to represent Her Majesty's Government at the Monetary Conference held in Paris in August 1878'

chapter |4 pages

2 May 1884: Coinage Act, 1884, United Kingdom: ‘A Bill, for amending the Coinage Act, 1870, so far as relates to Gold Coin and for making the necessary consequential Amendments in the Banking and Weights and Measures Acts'

chapter |10 pages

6 November 1885: The Monetary Convention of the 6th of November 1885, agreed upon by the Delegates of the Latin Monetary Union

chapter |18 pages

7 January 1886: ‘Message from the President of the United States [Grover Cleveland], transmitting, in response to a Senate Resolution of December 9, 1885, a Report of the Secretary of State, with Information relative to Gold and Silver Coinage in Europe'

chapter |3 pages

30 January 1888: Letter from Mr Alfred de Rothschild to the Chairman of the Gold and Silver Commission: ‘Second Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the recent Changes in the relative Values of the precious Metals; with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices'

chapter |2 pages

October 1888: Gold and Silver Commission: Excerpts from the ‘Final Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the recent Changes in the relative Values of the Precious Metals; with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices'

chapter |2 pages

9 July 1889: Coinage Act, 1889: ‘A Bill, to amend the Coinage Act, 1870, as respects Light Gold Coins'

chapter |1 pages

30 August 1889: Coinage Act, 1889: ‘A Bill, to amend the Coinage Act, 1870, as respects Light Gold Coins'

chapter |7 pages

9 July 1896: William Jennings Bryan's ‘Cross of Gold' Speech, delivered to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago, Illinois

chapter |6 pages

14 March 1900: Gold Standard Act, 1900, United States: ‘An Act to define and fix the Standard of Value, to maintain the Parity of all Forms of Money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public Debt, and for other Purposes'

chapter |3 pages

6 August 1914: Currency and Bank Notes Act, 1914: ‘A Bill, to authorise the Issue of Currency Notes, and to make Provision with Respect to the Note Issue of Banks'

chapter |1 pages

25 August 1914: ‘A Bill, to amend the Currency and Bank Notes Act, 1914', United Kingdom

chapter |12 pages

15 August 1918: Interim Report of the Cunliffe Committee, 1918: Report on Currency and Foreign Exchanges after the War

chapter |7 pages

28 June 1919: The Treaty of Versailles

chapter |2 pages

4 November 1920: Gold and Silver (Export Control) Act, 1920, United Kingdom: ‘A Bill, to control the Exportation of Gold and Silver Coin and Bullion, and to prohibit the Melting or improper Use of Gold and Silver Coin'

chapter |3 pages

7 April 1921: National Bank Law, Switzerland, 1921

chapter |3 pages

30 August 1924: Bank Law, Germany, 1924

chapter |5 pages

28 April 1925: Winston Churchill's 1925 Budget Speech

chapter |2 pages

28 April 1925: Gold Standard Act, 1925, United Kingdom: ‘A Bill, to facilitate the Return to a Gold Standard and for Purposes connected therewith'

chapter |2 pages

21 August 1925: Decree-Law Creating the Central Bank of Chile, 1925

chapter |3 pages

25 June 1928: Monetary Law, France, 1928

chapter |3 pages

20 December 1929: Amendment to the National Bank Law, Switzerland, 1929

chapter |1 pages

29 March 1930: Paper issued by the Statistical Section of the Bank of England, entitled ‘Terms on which the Bank of England buys Bar Gold'

chapter |202 pages

After the Gold Standard, 1931–1999

chapter |5 pages

After the Gold Standard, 1931–1999

chapter |7 pages

June 1931: Macmillan Committee Report, 1931: Committee on Finance and Industry

chapter |1 pages

20 September 1931: Confidential Telegram from the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, concerning the Decision of the United Kingdom to go off the Gold Standard

chapter |7 pages

21 September 1931: Philip Snowden's Speech to the House of Commons, 1931

chapter |1 pages

21 September 1931: Gold Standard (Amendment) Act, 1931, United Kingdom: ‘A Bill, to suspend the Operation of Sub-section (2) of Section One of the Gold Standard Act, 1925, and for Purposes connected therewith'

chapter |2 pages

21 January 1932: Bank of England Report entitled ‘The Suspension of the Gold Standard in Great Britain and its Effect on the Countries of Europe'

chapter |2 pages

11 July 1932: Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements relating to the Gold Standard

chapter |2 pages

6 March 1933: Presidential Proclamation (No. 2039) of Franklin D. Roosevelt prohibiting Gold and Silver Exports and Foreign Exchange Transactions

chapter |2 pages

9 March 1933: Recommendation of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Congress for Legislation to control the Resumption of Banking

chapter |1 pages

9 March 1933: Presidential Proclamation (No. 2040) of Franklin D. Roosevelt extending the Prohibition of Gold and Silver Exports and Foreign Exchange Transactions

chapter |2 pages

10 March 1933: Executive Order (No. 6073) of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt reopening the Banks but maintaining the Prohibition on Gold Exports and Foreign Exchange Transactions

chapter |3 pages

5 April 1933: Executive Order (No. 6102) of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt prohibiting the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates, and requiring them to be delivered to the Federal Reserve Bank

chapter |2 pages

19 April 1933: Report of A. P. L. Gordon, with Moy, Davies, Smith, Vandervell & Co., 20 Copthall Avenue, London EC2, concerning the Revival of the American Export Embargo on Gold, entitled ‘Gold, Dollars and Markets', marked ‘For Clients and Correspondents only'

chapter |2 pages

20 April 1933: Executive Order (No. 6111) of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning Controls on Gold Exports and Transactions in Foreign Exchange

chapter |2 pages

7 May 1933: Excerpt from United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt's second ‘Fireside Chat' of 1933: ‘What we have been doing and what we are planning to do’

chapter |3 pages

12 May 1933: Emergency Farm Mortgage Act, 1933

chapter |6 pages

28 August 1933: Executive Order (No. 6260) of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning Controls on Gold Exports and Transactions in Foreign Exchange

chapter |4 pages

15 January 1934: Recommendation of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Congress for Legislation to improve the financial and monetary System

chapter |8 pages

30 January 1934: Gold Reserve Act of 1934: ‘An Act to protect the Currency System of the United States, to provide for the better Use of the monetary Gold Stock of the United States, and for other Purposes'

chapter |3 pages

31 January 1934: Presidential Proclamation (No. 2072) of Franklin D. Roosevelt fixing the Gold Value, by Weight, of the United States Dollar, making the Dollar convertible to Gold at the new Price of $35.00 per Ounce

chapter |3 pages

31 January 1934: White House Statement on the Presidential Proclamation of Franklin D. Roosevelt fixing the Gold Value, by Weight, of the United States Dollar

chapter |1 pages

14 May 1934: Press Release communicating a Resolution of the Bank for International Settlements relative to the Restoration of the Gold Standard

chapter |3 pages

22 May 1934: Message of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Congress on Silver Policy

chapter |3 pages

9 August 1934: Presidential Proclamation (No. 2092) of Franklin D. Roosevelt to facilitate the Coinage of Silver.

chapter |5 pages

25 September – 13 October 1936: Tripartite Agreement between the United States, France and the United Kingdom on international monetary Cooperation

chapter |1 pages

27 September 1936: Swiss Federal Council Decree, 1936

chapter |1 pages

5 October 1936: Memorandum to the Governor of the Bank of England concerning the Devaluation of the Italian Lira by forty per cent

chapter |1 pages

7 October 1936: Report on the Devaluation of the Italian Lira, issued by the Overseas and Foreign Department

chapter |1 pages

7 October 1936: Bank of England Memorandum on the Devaluation of the French Franc

chapter |1 pages

7 October 1936: Reuters News Wire Report, from Belgrade, on the likely Adjustment of the Yugoslav Dinar

chapter |2 pages

28 October 1936: Declaration of the Swiss Government, through the Federal Finance and Customs Department, and the National Bank of Switzerland regarding the Purchase and Sale of Gold

chapter |2 pages

2 November 1936: Table of Currency Devaluations in the United States and Europe following the Devaluation of the Pound in 1931

chapter |1 pages

1937–9: Reports of Machinery and Technical Transport Ltd., International Shipping and Forwarding Agents, ‘Ling House', South Street, Finsbury Pavement, London EC2, to the Bank of England, Foreign Exchange Department, for the attention of Mr Bolton, with Attachments, concerning Movements in Gold

chapter |1 pages

31 August 1939: Letter of N. M. Rothschild & Sons, giving the Price of Gold at the Time of the Morning Fixing, to the Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, on Letterhead of the Royal Mint Refinery, New Court, St Swithin's Lane, London EC4

chapter |1 pages

26 June 1940: Bank of England Memorandum, consisting of a Report on the Distribution of Gold Reserves of Countries occupied by Germany to determine the Quantity that may have fallen into German Hands

chapter |1 pages

26 June 1940: Bank of England Memorandum, giving Estimates of the Amount of Gold from Occupied Countries that may have fallen into German Hands

chapter |2 pages

19 July 1940: Bank of England Memorandum, giving updated Estimates of French, Belgian and Polish Gold Holdings at the Time of the German Occupation

chapter |20 pages

22 July 1944: Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund, 1944

chapter |3 pages

11 March 1947: Exchange Control Act, 1947, United Kingdom: ‘An Act to confer Powers, and impose Duties and Restrictions, in Relation to Gold, Currency, Payments, Securities, Debts, and the Import, Export, Transfer and Settlement of Property, and for Purposes connected with the Matters aforesaid'

chapter |2 pages

19 September 1949: Memoranda concerning new Gold Prices as a Consequence of the Devaluation of Sterling

chapter |2 pages

1 November 1949: Memorandum concerning the Case of Emile Katz, seen as a Contravention of the Statute stipulated in the Exchange Control Act of 1947 prohibiting the private Ownership of Gold

chapter |2 pages

9 November 1953: Report entitled ‘The London Gold Market'

chapter |2 pages

19 March 1954: Press Release from H. M. Treasury, concerning the Reopening of the London Gold Market for the first Time since the Outbreak of the Second World War

chapter |2 pages

20 March 1954: Correspondence of R. A. O. Bridge, Bank of England, to Mr Joseph J. Moran, Vice President, Bank of Manhattan Co., 40 Wall Street, New York, concerning the Reopening of the London Gold Market

chapter |4 pages

4 February 1965: Excerpt from a Press Conference of French President Charles de Gaulle at the Palais de l'Élysée calling for the Return of a ‘Gold Exchange Standard'

chapter |5 pages

12 June 1965: The London Gold Market and the Devaluation of Sterling

chapter |4 pages

16 June 1965: United Kingdom, Treasury: Meeting Notes, labelled ‘top secret', including Considerations about the Effects of the planned Devaluation of the Pound Sterling on the London Gold Market

chapter |4 pages

30 January 1968: Statement by Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler, 30 January 1968, before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, on Legislation to remove the Gold Cover

chapter |6 pages

March 1968: Memoranda on the Gold Pool by Walt Rostow, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, to President Johnson

chapter |1 pages

14 March 1968: Statement by Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler and Chairman William M. Martin of the Federal Reserve Board

chapter |1 pages

15 March 1968: H.M. Treasury Press Statement on the London Gold Market

chapter |2 pages

17 March 1968: Washington Communique

chapter |1 pages

18 March 1968: Notice instructing Authorised Dealers in Gold not to transact in Gold before 1 April 1968

chapter |1 pages

29 March 1968: Instructions to Authorised Dealers in Gold concerning the scheduled Reopening of the London Gold Market on 1 April 1968

chapter |4 pages

15 August 1971: Address by US President Nixon to the Nation outlining a New Economic Policy ‘The Challenge of Peace'

chapter |2 pages

18 December 1971: Remarks by US President Nixon announcing a Monetary Agreement following a Meeting of the Group of Ten

chapter |9 pages

December 1971: Smithsonian Agreement of the Group of Ten

chapter |1 pages

31 March 1972: Par Value Modification Act, 1972

chapter |6 pages

2 May 1972: Summary of Regulations on Gold currently in Force in European Countries

chapter |1 pages

21 September 1973: An Act to amend the Par Value Modification Act

chapter |3 pages

30 April 1976: The Second Amendment to the IMF Articles

chapter |14 pages

31 March 1982: The United States Gold Commission, 1982

chapter |2 pages

26 September 1999: The Washington Agreement on Gold