three, distinguishing the respective denominations and values of the several notes and bills, and the average amount of the notes and bills of each denomination and value respectively, and to cause such quarterly account to be published in The London Gazette within one week next after the end of each quarter respectively.

X. And whereas the laws now in force against melting and exporting the gold and silver coin of the realm have been found ineffectual, and it is expedient that the traffic in gold and silver bullion should be unrestrained; be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this act it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to export the gold or silver coin of the realm to parts beyond the seas, and also to melt the gold and silver coin of the realm, and to manufacture or export, or otherwise dispose of the gold or silver bullion produced thereby; and no person who shall export or melt such gold or silver coin, or who shall manufacture, export, or dispose of such bullion, shall be subject to any restriction, forfeiture, pain, penalty, incapacity, or disability whatever, for or in respect of such melting, manufac turing, or exporting the same respectively; any thing in any act or acts in force in Great Britain or Ireland to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

XI. And for the removing all doubts and uncertainties with respect to various provisions in divers ancient statutes against melting and exporting of gold and silver; be it further enacted, That so much of a statute made in the ninth year of the reign of King Edward the Third shall be repealed, whereby it is provided, that no religious man nor other shall carry any sterling out of the realm of England, nor silver in plate, nor vessel of gold, nor of silver, upon pain of forfeiture of the money, plate, or vessel that he shall so carry without the King's special license; and also that so much of the said statute shall be repealed, whereby it is provided that no sterling halfpenny nor farthing be molten for to make vessel or any other thing, by goldsmiths nor other, upon forfeiture of the money so molten; and that the goldsmith or other which shall have so molten such money shall be committed to prison, and there shall remain till he shall have yielded unto the King the one half of that he hath so molten; and that also so

much of a statute made in the seventeenth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third shall be repealed, whereby it is accorded and assented, that good and lawful men shall be assigned in the ports of the sea and elsewhere, where need shall be, to make search that no silver be carried out of the realm, neither in money nor otherwise; and that the said searchers shall have the third part of the good money which they shall find upon the sea, passing out of the realm; and also that so much of the statute of the staple, or ordinance of the staples, made in the twenty-seventh year of the said King Edward the Third, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted, that none carry out of the King's realm and lands the old sterling; and also that so much of the statute made in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted that none carry out of the realm gold or silver, in plate nor in money; and also that so much of the statute made in the fifth year of the reign of King Richard the Second shall be repealed, whereby it is assented and accorded, and the King enjoineth all manner of people, merchants, clerks, and other, as well strangers as denizens, of what estate or condition they be, upon pain of as much as they may forfeit, that none of them, upon the said pain, privily or openly, do send nor carry, nor cause to be sent or carried, out of the realm, any gold or silver in money, bullion, plate, or vessel, neither by exchanges to be made, nor in any other manner whatever, except the wages of Calais and of other the King's fortresses beyond the sea, and especially excepted the prelates, lords, and others of the same realm, to whom sometimes it behoveth necessarily to make payments beyond the sea, that of such payments only, they may make exchange in England by good and sufficient merchants to pay beyond the sea, special leave and license being therefore first had of our lord the King, as well for the exchangers as for the person which ought to make the payment, containing expressly the sum which shall be so exchanged; and whereby it is assented that the merchants who so shall make the said exchanges shall be diligently examined and sworn, in their proper persons, as often as they shall have the said license, that they will not send beyond the sea any manner of gold nor silver under the colour of the same exchange; and that if

after proclamation of the said ordinance, any person be from thenceforth duly attainted that he had caused to be sent or carried beyond the sea any gold or silver, against the said restraint and ordinance, he should forfeit to the King the same sum so carried or sent; and also that so much of the statute made in the seventeenth year of the reign of the said King Richard the Second shall be repealed, whereby it is ordained and assented, that no groat or half groat shall be molten by any man, to make any vessel or other thing thereof, and that no man shall send English money into Scotland, to change the same in money or for money of Scotland; and also that so much of the statute made in the second year of the reign of King Henry the Fourth shall be repealed, whereby it is ordained and established, that if any searcher of the King may find gold or silver in coin, or in mass, in the keeping of any that is about passing, or upon his passage in any ship or vessel to go out of any port, haven, or creek of the realm, without the King's special license, all that gold or silver shall be forfeit to the King; and also that so much of a statute made in the second year of the reign of King Henry the Sixth, shall be repealed, whereby it is ordained and established, that no gold or silver shall be carried out of the realm, upon pain of forfeiture of the value of the sum of money which shall be carried out of the realm, to be levied of him that shall bring, carry, or send it out; and that he which espieth the same, and thereof giveth knowledge to the council, or to the treasurer of England, shall have the fourth part of the forfeiture so due to the King; and also that so much of an act made in the fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled An Act against carrying away of Coin, Plate, Vessels or Jewels out of this realm, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted, that no person dwelling or inhabiting within this realm pay or deliver, wittingly, by way of exchange or otherwise, to any merchant or other person, stranger, born out of the King's obeisance, for any merchandize or wares, or in any other wise, any manner pieces of gold coined in this realm, or in any other realm, or any plate, vessel, mass bullion, nor jewels of gold wrought or unwrought, upon pain to forfeit and lose the double sum or double value of all such money of gold coined, plate, vessel, mass bullion, or jewel of gold or silver, paid,

delivered, or exchanged, contrary to the said act; and also that an act made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act to prevent the inconvenience arising by melting the Silver Coin of this Realm, shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted that no person or persons shall wilfully melt, or cause to be melted, any of the current silver money of this realm, under the pains, penalties, and disabilities in the said act mentioned; and the several recited provisions of the said several statutes and acts, and the said recited act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Second, and all and every other law and laws, act and acts, in force immediately before the passing of the said last-recited act, whereby the melting or exportation of gold and silver coin, or the exportation of molten gold or silver, or bullion of gold or silver, was prohibited or restrained, shall be, and the same are and is hereby repealed, except only so far as relates to any suit, action, or information which at the time of the passing of this act shall or may be depending, with relation to any offence against the said statutes or acts respectively, or any of them.

XII. And be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this act, so much of an act made in the sixth and seventh years of his late Majesty King William the Third, intituled An Act to prevent counterfeiting and clipping the Coin of this Kingdom, shall be repealed, as requires the taking, administering, or certificate of any oath, that no part of any molten silver intended for exportation, was before the same was molten the current coin of this realm, nor plate wrought within this kingdom; and also that so much of the said act shall be repealed, whereby it is enacted, that if any broker or brokers, not being a trading goldsmith or refiner of silver, shall buy or sell any bullion or molten silver, every such person shall suffer for every such offence imprisonment for six months, without bail or mainprize; and also that so much of the said act shall be repealed, as authorizes the wardens or assistants of the Company of Goldsmiths of London, or any two justices of the peace, to seize, as unlawful bullion, any molten silver, which before the melting thereof was the current coin of this realm, or as requires any offender in whose possession unlawful bullion shall be found, to prove on oath

that such bullion was not the current coin of the realm; and also that so much of an act made in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Third, intituled An Act to encourage the bringing Plate into the Mint to be coined, and for the remedying the ill state of the Coin of the Kingdom, shall be repealed, as requires the taking, administering, or certificate of any oath, that no part of any molten silver or bullion whatsoever to be shipped for exportation, was before the same was molten the coin of this realm, nor plate wrought within this kingdom; and also that so much of the said last-mentioned act shall be repealed, as imposes any penalty or forfeiture, or incapacity on the captain or master of any ship or vessel, who shall knowingly permit or suffer molten silver or bullion to be put on board his ship or vessel; and all the said recited provisions of the said several acts are hereby repealed accordingly.

XIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or alter any act or acts, or any part of any act or acts in force in Great Britain or Ireland, so far as the same relate to the prevention, detection, or punishment of the offences of clipping, washing, rounding, filing, impairing, diminishing, falsifying, scaling, or lightening of the lawful coin of the realm, or to the inflicting any pain, penalty, or forfeiture on any persons guilty of such offences, or guilty of buying or selling, or knowingly having in their custody any clippings or filings of such coin; and that from and after the passing of this act, before any person or persons shall transport, or cause to be transported, any molten silver whatever, oath shall be made before the wardens of the company of goldsmiths in London, or one of them, by the owner or owners of such molten silver, and likewise by one credible witness, that the same is lawful silver, and that no part thereof was, before the same was molten, clippings of the current coin of this realm, which oath the said wardens, or any one of them, are and is hereby required and authorized to administer, instead of the oath required by the said recited act of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of King William the Third ; and that from and after the passing of this act, before any person or persons shall ship, or cause to be shipped or put on