United States Congress (March 3, 1865) approved the instruction of Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, to the U.S. Mint to prepare a "device" to inscribe U.S. coins with the motto:
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In 1955, the Congress of the United States passed a bill, signed by President Eisenhower, providing that all U.S. Currency should bear the words:
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Endnotes:
1865US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. March 3, 1865, Congress approved instructions to the Secretary of the Treasury. "Our Christian Heritage," Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 6. Keith J. Hardman, Christianity & The Civil War-The Christian History Timeline (Carol Stream, IL: Christian History, 1992), Vol. XI, No. 1, p. 33.
1865US002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. 1955, in an Act of Congress signed by President Eisenhower approved that U.S. currency should bear the words "In God We Trust." The World Book Encyclopedia, 18 vols. (Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957; W.F. Quarrie and Company, 8 vols., 1917; World Book, Inc., 22 vols., 1989), Vol. 11, p. 5182.