ORDINANCE No. 2 of 1864.
Mint.
(6.) Weight of each description of coin produced;
(7.) Weight of each description of coin delivered to the public, and the amount, if any, charged for coining;
(8.) Copy of the reports of the assay of coin;
(9.) Number and description of dies received or completed during the quarter, of dies worn out, of dies effectually defaced, and of serviceable dies in hand.
(10.) A return, shewing the waste during the quarter, distinguishing the waste arising in melting, in refining, in coining, and in assaying. And he shall forward any other returns which the Governor or Officer Administering the Government of the Colony may require.
7. That with a view to ensure the careful observance of the standard in the coin the Governor or Officer Administering the Government of the Colony shall cause to be taken at uncertain times during each quarter from amongst the coins issued at the Mint to the public without preference in the selection, specimen pieces, and that such specimens shall be forwarded from time to time to the Master of the Royal Mint in London for such examination as the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct.
8. That the Governor or Officer Administering the Government of the Colony shall direct a Board of Government officers not less than three in number, to assemble at the Mint at the expiration of each quarter for the inspection of the store of bullion and coin in the Mint, and report on the same to him, stating the exact amounts of the balance of each description verified by them.
9. That the salaries specified as under shall be added to the civil list:
The Master of the Mint,.. Per Annum. $6,720.
The Superintendent of the Bullion Office, $3,840.
The Assayer,.... $3,840.
The Superintendent of the Coining Department,......$3,840.
The Superintendent of the Melting Department,....$3,840.
10. That such other officers and servants of the Mint as may be appointed shall be paid such salaries as may be fixed by the Governor or Officer Administering the Government of the Colony, with the approval of the Secretary of State, and that such salaries shall be borne on the Annual Estimates.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
NOTE.-For Regulations as to the receipt of bullion &c., of the 11th December 1865, see Gazette 23rd December 1865.
For Regulations of the 20th April 1866 modifying the former, see Gazette 21st of the same month.
For Further Rules of the 2nd May 1866, see Gazette 5th of the same month. And for Proclamation by the Governor of the 15th September 1866 as to legal tender of the Mint dollar and half dollar, see Gazette of the same date.
For Regulations for the issue of silver coin of the 20th October 1866, see Gazette 12th January 1867.
The Mint has long ceased to exist.