HEAVY SOVEREIGNS. TABLE VI. LIGHT SOVEREIGNS. 1317-20. 1821-30.,1831-40. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1861-70. 1871-81. Total. 1817-20. 1821-30. 1831-40. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1861-70. 1871 81. Total. 22 1165 5 24 88 1,058 1,176 12 35 413 1,658 4,165 13,995 20,291 49 14 71 412 897 1,422 2,823 29566666 1817-20. 1821-30. 1831-40. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1861-70. 1871-81. Total. 1817-20. 1821-30. 1831-40. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1861-70. 1871-80. Total. TABLE VIa. HEAVY SOVEREIGNS. LIGHT HALF-SOVEREIGNS. 1817-20. 1821-30. 1831-40. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1861-70. 1871-81. Total. 1817-20. 1821-30. 1831-40. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1881-70. 1871-81. Total. A. Cities having a Branch HEAVY HALF-SOVEREIGNS. LIGHT HALF-SOVEREIGNS. 1817-20. 1821-30. 1831-40. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1861-70. 1871-80. Total. 1817-20. 1821-30. 1831-10. 1841-50. 1851-60. 1861-70. 1871-80. Total. B. of the Bank of England London and Suburbs ..... 94 453 1,660 768 3,082 7,742 1,392 8,079 17,588 227 1,982 6,674 13,600 19,963 22,189 26,013 37,716 113 698 255 682 27,882 55,353 353 510 823 10,098 46,376 68,943 203 454 776 706 10,000 22,000 736 11,151 22,340 857 9,411 18,890 18,883 5,643 9,015 APPENDIX I. CHAP. 10. A.D. 1870. Short title. Definitions of terms. Standard of coins. Legal tender. An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Coinage and Her Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: - 1. This Act may be cited as "The Coinage Act, 1870." 2. In this Act The term "Treasury" means the Lord High Treasurer for the time The term "the Mint" means, except as expressly provided, Her The term "British Possession" means any colony, plantation, island, The term "person" includes a body corporate. 3. All coins made at the Mint of the denominations mentioned in the first schedule to this Act shall be of the weight and fineness specified in that schedule, and the standard trial plates shall be made accordingly. If any coin of gold, silver or bronze, but of any other denomination than that of the coins mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, is hereafter coined at the Mint, such coin shall be of a weight and fineness bearing the same proportion to the weight and fineness specified in that schedule as the denomination of such coin bears to the denominations mentioned in that schedule. Provided that in the making of coins a remedy (or variation from the standard weight and fineness specified in the said first schedule) shall be allowed of an amount not exceeding the amount specified in that schedule. 4. A tender of payment of money, if made in coins which have been issued by the Mint in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and have not been called in by any proclamation made in pursuance of this Act, and have not become diminished in weight, by wear or otherwise, so as to be of less weight than the current weight, that is to say, than the weight (if any) specified as the least current weight in the first schedule to this Act, or less than such weight as may be declared by any proclamation made in pursuance of this Act, shall be a legal tender In the case of gold coins for a payment of any amount: In the case of silver coins for a payment of an amount not exceeding forty shillings, but for no greater amount; In the case of bronze coins for a payment of an amount not exceeding one shilling, but for no greater amount. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any paper currency which under any Act or otherwise is a legal tender from being a legal tender. A.D. 1870. tokens. 5. No piece of gold, silver, copper, or bronze, or of any metal or mixed Prohibition of metal, of any value whatever, shall be made or issued, except by the Mint, other coins and as a coin or a token for money, or as purporting that the holder thereof is entitled to demand any value denoted thereon. Every person who acts in contravention of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. currency. 6. Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument, and security Contracts, &c., for money, and every transaction, dealing, matter, and thing whatever to be made in relating to money, or involving the payment of or the liability to pay any money, which is made, executed, or entered into, done or had, shall be made, executed, entered into, done and had according to the coins which are current and legal tender in pursuance of this Act, and not otherwise, unless the same be made, executed, entered into, done or had according to the currency of some British possession or some foreign state. 7. Where any gold coin of the realm is below the current weight as pro- Defacing light vided by this Act, or where any coin is called in by any proclamation, gold coin. every person shall, by himself or others, cut, break, or deface any such coin tendered to him in payment, and the person tendering the same shall bear the loss. If any coin cut, broken, or defaced in pursuance of this section is not below the current weight, or has not been called in by any proclamation, the person cutting, breaking, or defacing the same shall receive the same in payment according to its denomination. Any dispute which may arise under this section may be determined by a summary proceeding. 8. Where any person brings to the Mint any gold bullion, such bullion Coining of shall be assayed and coined, and delivered out to such person, without any bullion taken to charge for such assay or coining, or for waste in coinage. Provided that (1.) If the fineness of the whole of the bullion so brought to the Mint is such that it cannot be brought to the standard fineness under this Act of the coin to be coined thereout, without refining some portion of it, the master of the Mint may refuse to receive, assay, or coin such bullion: (2.) Where the bullion so brought to the Mint is finer than the standard fineness under this Act of the coin to be coined thereout, there shall be delivered to the person bringing the same such additional amount of coin as is proportionate to such superior fineness. No undue preference shall be shown to any person under this section, and every person shall have priority according to the time at which he brought such bullion to the Mint. the Mint. 9. The Treasury may from time to time issue to the master of the Mint, Purchase of out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund, such sums as may bullion. be necessary to enable him to purchase bullion in order to provide supplies of coin for the public service. |