thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to ordain, declare, and command, that certain pieces of gold coin therein described, called sovereigns and half sovereigns, should pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and that every such sovereign should weigh not less than five penny weights, two grains and three quarters, and that every such half sovereign should weigh not less than two penny weights, thirteen grains and one quarter ;and whereas the allowance made for reasonable wear by the said Proclamations has been found by experience to be too small for general practice: We taking the same into consideration are pleased, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, and We do hereby ordain, declare, and command, that, from and after the date hereof, every gold sovereign not weighing less than five penny weights, two grains and a half, and every gold half sovereign not weighing less than two penny weights, thirteen grains and one eighth, shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; every such sovereign as of the value of twenty shillings; and every such half sovereign as of the value of ten shillings, in all payments whatsoever.

Given at Our Court at Carlton-House, the sixth day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and in the secondyear of Our reign.

GOD save the KING.

Act of the Fourteenth Year of His late 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 er 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 it such tenders shall be made out of any city or town cor porate, 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 au oath, as he shall see convenient, to any person for determining any questions relating to the weight and lawful currency of the said piece of coin.

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Act of the Fourteenth Year of His late 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 His Majesty for this purpose, in pursuance of a preceding clause of the said Act), and after having been tried and compared thererewith, 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 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 airected to be lodged in his custody, without fee or

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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 mentionea, 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.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 23d of February 1821,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

HIS Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint Thomas Wildman, of Newstead-Abbey, Esq. to be Sheriff of the county of Nottingham; and William Withering, of the Larches, Esq. to be Sheriff of the county of Warwick for the present year.

And His Majesty was pleased to make the following amendments upon the Roll:

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 23d of

February 1821,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

THIS day the Right Honourable James Marquess of Graham, Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, was, by His Majesty's command, sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly.

Westminster, February 23, 1821.

THIS day, the Lords being met, a message was sent to the Honourable House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, acquainting them, that The Lords, authorised by virtue of a Commission under the Great Seal, signed by His Majesty, for declaring His Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate attendance of the Honourable House in the House of Peers to hear the Commission read; and the Commons being come thither, the said Commission, empowering the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and several other Lords therein named, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Acts, was read accordingly, and the Royal Assent given to

An Act for enabling His Majesty to make provision for Her Majesty the Queen.

An Act for continuing to His Majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, foreign spirits and sweets in Great Britain, and on pen