and that the seven shillings gold pieces, and the gold pieces called sovereigns or twenty shilling pieces, more deficient in weight than the rates hereafter specified, viz. 5 Seven shilling pieces, one pennyweight eighteen grains; Sovereigns, or twenty shilling pieces, five pennyweights two grains three quarters ; be not allowed to be current or pass in any payment whatsoever: and We do hereby strictly require and command all His Majesty's loving subjects, and particularly all the officers, collectors, and -receivers of His Majesty's revenues, strictly to conform to the orders hereby given, and to the direc tions and regulations enacted and established in the several Acts of Parliament now in force with respect to the cutting, breaking, and defacing such pieces of the said gold coin as shall be found deficient in weight and We do hereby further ordain, declare, and command, that the guineas, half guineas, quarter guineas, seven shilling pieces, and sovereigns, of the weights above described, shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in all payments whatsoever. Given at the Court at Carlton-House, the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, in the fifty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign. GOD save the KING. 1817. Bb Act Act of the Fourteenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, Cap. 70, Sect. 7. AND be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the Tellers in the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Great Britain, and all receivers, collectors, and other officers of all His Majesty's revenues whatsoever, and all other persons whatsoever, are hereby authorised and required to cut, break, or deface, or cause to be cut, broken, or defaced, every piece of gold coin of this realm that shall be tendered to them, or any of them, in payment, after such time and times as any such piece of gold coin shall, by virtue of any Proclamation of His Majesty in Council, be declared not to be allowed to pass in any payment ,whatsoever, any law or statute to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding, and the person tendering the same shall bear the loss; but if any such piece so cut, broken or defaced, shall be of due weight, and appear to be lawful money, the person that cut, broke, or defaced the same shall, and is hereby required to take and receive the same at the rate it was coined for; and if any questions or disputes shall arise, whether the piece so cut be lawful coin, within the intent and meaning of His Majesty's Proclamations, it shall be heard and finally determined by the mayor, bailiff or bailiffs, or other chief officer of any city or town corporate where such tender shall be made; and if such tenders shall be made out of any city or town corporate, then by some justice of the peace of the County inhabiting or being near the place where such tender shall be made; and the said mayor or other chief officer and justice of the peace shall have full power and authority to administer an path, as he shall see convenient, to any person for de determining any questions relating to the weight. and lawful currency of the said piece of coin. Act of the Fourteenth Year of His present. Majesty's‹ Reign, Cap. 92, Sect. 4. AND be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the thirty-first day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, all weights to be made use of for weighing the said gold and silver coin, shall be regulated and ascertained by the duplicates or copies of the said standard weights of a guinea, of a shilling, and of the parts and multiples thereof respectively, lodged in the custody of the officer before mentioned (viz. the officer appointed by HisMajesty for this purpose, in pursuance of a preceding clause of the said Act), and after having". been tried and compared therewith, and found to be just and true, shall, in testimony thereof, be marked by the said officer with a stamp or mark, or stamps or marks, to be approved of by the Master of His Majesty's Mint, which stamps or marks the said officer is hereby directed to provide; and in order that the impression or impressions made thereby may be known. to all His Majesty's subjects, the said officer is hereby also directed to publish a description of the same, by advertisement in the London Gazette, three times at least before the said thirty-first day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four; and the said officer is hereby required, upon application made to him at all seasonable hours, to stamp or mark, in manner aforesaid, all weights to be used for weighing the said gold and silver coin which shall be brought to him for that purpose, and which he shall find to be just and true according Bb 2 to to the said duplicates or copies of the standard weights of a guinea and of a shilling, and of the parts and multiples thereof respectively, hereby directed to be lodged in his custody, without fee or reward, and without wilful delay; and from and after the said thirty-first day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, no other weights but such as shall be just and true, according to the weights with and by which they are hereby directed to be compared and ascertained, and shall be marked in manner before mentioned, shall be reputed or accepted in law to be true or of any effect for determining the weight of the gold or silver coin of this realm. Crown-Office, July 8, 1817. Days and Places appointed for holding the Summer Assizes 1817, viz. HOME CIRCUIT. Lord Ellenborough, Lord. Chief Justice. Hertfordshire, Thursday, July 24, at Hertford. NORFOLK CIRCUIT. Sir Vicary Gibbs, Knt. Lord Chief Justice. Buckinghamshire, Monday, July 21, at Bucking ham. Bedfordshire, Thursday, July 24, at Bedford. Huntingdonshire, Saturday, July 26, at Hunting don. Cam Cambridgeshire, Monday, July 28, at Cambridge. Suffolk, Thursday, July 31, at Bury Saint Ed→ mund's. Norfolk, Tuesday, August 5, at the Castle of Norwich. City of Norwich, The same day, at the Guildhall of the said City. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Sir Richard Richards, Knt. Lord Chief Baron. City of York, and County of the same City, Satur- Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and County of the same Town, Saturday, August 9, at the Guildhall of the said Town. Northumberland, The same day, at the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Cumberland, Saturday, August 16, at the City of Carlisle. Westmorland, Saturday, August 23, at Appleby. Lancashire, Wednesday, August 27, at the Castle of Lancaster. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. Mr. Justice Bayley. Northamptonshire, Tuesday, July 15, at Northampton. Rutlandshire, Friday, July 18, at Oakham. Lincolnshire, Saturday, July 19, at the Castle of Lincoln. City of Lincoln, The same day, at the City of Lincoln. Not |