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        H.R.3301

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-
                                  eight


                                 An Act


 
   To amend chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code, to allow the 
    Secretary of the Treasury greater discretion with regard to the 
 placement of the required inscriptions on quarter dollars issued under 
                the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5112(l)(1) 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph:
            ``(C) Flexibility with regard to placement of 
        inscriptions.--Notwithstanding subsection (d)(1), the Secretary 
        may select a design for quarter dollars issued during the 10-
        year period referred to in subparagraph (A) in which--
                ``(i) the inscription described in the second sentence 
            of subsection (d)(1) appears on the reverse side of any 
            such quarter dollars; and
                ``(ii) any inscription described in the third sentence 
            of subsection (d)(1) or the designation of the value of the 
            coin appears on the obverse side of any such quarter 
            dollars.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.

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