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Issuance of Silver Certificates 

## ARTICLE VI 

SECTION 1780 . Manner in which Silver Certificates are to be Dealt with . — Silver certificates shall be prepared and delivered to the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, safeguarded, issued, withdrawn, and canceled or destroyed, and a record of such transa ctions shall be kept as hereinbelow provided: 

( a ) The necessary drawings, designs, plates, and engravings for such certificates, and the printing thereof, shall be made and executed through the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, upon request of the Government of the Philippine Islands, in  accordance with section twelve of said Act of Congress of March second, nineteen hundred and three, and the amount of such certificates and the denominations thereof shall be determined, from time to time, by resolution of the Upper House of the Philippin e Legislature. TaDAIS 

( b ) Such certificates, when completed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington, shall be delivered to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department at Washington, the Chief of which Bureau shall receipt therefor in the name of the Governm ent of the Philippine Islands, after having verified the count thereof. The Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs shall thereupon transmit such certificates to the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, and shall also give notice to the Auditor for the Phi lippine Islands of the denominations and amount of silver certificates transmitted to the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands. Upon delivery of such certificates to the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, the Auditor shall receive from the Treasurer of th e Philippine Islands a receipt in duplicate of the denominations and amount of the certificates so received upon verifying the count thereof; and of the duplicate receipts so received the Auditor shall retain one, and the other shall be transmitted by the Auditor with his counter-signature to the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs at Washington. 

( c ) Upon receiving such certificates, the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands shall preserve the same free from all opportunity for loss by theft, and the certificates, in packages of convenient size inclosed in paper strips upon which are printed the denom ination and amount included therein, shall be deposited in a vault, called the reserve 

