280 THE HONGKONG GOVTM GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 30TH MAR., 1895.
2. If, on the report of the Governor of the Colony, the Commissioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State from time to time declare that they consider any dollar not mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order to be equivalent in value to the standard coin, or to any of the dollars therein mentioned, then, after the date fixed by the Governor in a proclamation stating the declaration, and setting forth in a schedule the same particulars with respect to the dollar as are set forth in the said Second Schedule, this Order shall apply as if the schedule in the proclamation were added to the Second Schedule to this Order.
3.-(1.) If the Governor of the Colony at any time requests that any new subsidiary coins of less value than the dollar, whether of silver, copper, or mixed metal, be coined, and the Commissioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State approve such request, those new coins may be so coined under the direction of the Master of Our Mint, or at one of Our Mints in British India.
(2.) Such new coins shall have either the same impressions as the coins specified in the Third Schedule to this Order (in this Order referred to as existing coins) or such other impressions as may be approved of by the Master of Our Mint and by a Secretary of State.
(3.) Any such new coin may be of the same denomination as any existing subsidiary coin, or of a different denomination.
(4.) Every such new coin, if of silver, shall be of the same fineness as the existing silver coins, and of a weight bearing the same proportion to the weights of those coins as the denomination of the new coin bears to the denominations of the existing coins.
(5.) As regards both the existing coins and the new coins, the remedy of fineness shall be three- thousandths, and the remedy of weight shall be such that the gross deviation in weight on such number of coins of any given denomination as amount to the value of a dollar shall not exceed that allowed on the British dollar.
4.- -(1.) A tender of payment of money in the Colony, if made in the standard coin or in any coins specified in the Second or Third Schedule to this Order, shall, if the coins have not been dealt with in any manner prohibited by law, and if of silver have not become diminished in weight by wear or otherwise, so as to be of less weight than the weight in that behalf specified in the Schedules to this Order as the least current weight, be a legal tender-
(a) in the case of dollars, for the payment of any amount;
(b) in the case of the other silver coins, for the payment of an amount not exceeding two
dollars, but for no greater amount;
(c) in the case of coins of copper or mixed metal, for the payment of an amount not exceed-
ing one dollar, but for no greater amount.
(2.) Each coin shall be a legal tender only for the amount of its denomination.
(3.) If any new coins are coined, this article shall, after the date fixed by the Governor in a proclamation made with the approval of the Commissioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State setting forth in a schedule the same particulars with respect to each coin as are set forth in the Third Schedule to this Order, apply to the new coins as if the schedule to the proclamation were added to that Third Schedule.
5. On the commencement of this Order the laws specified in the Fourth Schedule to this Order and all other laws regulating legal tender in the Colony shall cease to be in force.
6. Nothing in this Order, nor any repeal of law by this Order, shall affect any liability incurred, contract made, or other thing done before the commencement of this Order.
7. In this Order—
The expression "Governor" means the Governor of the Colony, and includes the officer for
the time being administering the government of the Colony.
The expression "Secretary of State" means one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. Words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular.
8. This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1895.
9. This Order shall come into operation on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, or any earlier day on which it is proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor, and that day is in this Order referred to as the commencement of the Order.
C. L. PEEL.