This part lets the Treasury make copies of the medals. The copies are bronze, not gold. They can be sold. The price has to cover what they cost to make.
The document says “can”Who acts: Secretary of the TreasuryHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medals struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.”
The whole of section 4. It permits the Secretary of the Treasury, the term section 3 defines, to strike duplicates of the gold medals in bronze and to sell them. The price must be sufficient to cover the costs, and the section lists five things that count toward those costs: labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. The section grants a power and imposes no duty.
What the document actually says
“The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medals struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.”
That sentence, in plain words
The Treasury may make copies of the gold medals in bronze. It may sell them. The price must cover what they cost to make.
What this is about
Bronze is a cheaper metal than gold. The costs counted here include pay, metal, tools and machine time. The law says may, so this need not happen.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
The whole of the section, which is one sentence and one permission: striking and selling bronze duplicates, and the price the sale must cover.
Nothing. The section carries no other provision. The approval line and the legislative history the Government Publishing Office prints after the last section are held out of the indexed text.
The section permits rather than requires, so nothing here says duplicates will be made. It sets no number, no deadline and no upper price, and it does not say who may buy one. Where the money from a sale goes is set by section 6, not here.
