STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
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AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,
The 27th day of November 1875.
PRESENT:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board the draft of a Proclamation revising the rate at which the Mexican dollar and other coins referred to therein shall be issued in payments to Her Majesty's Land and Naval forces, and for other Imperial services, if any, in Her Majesty's Colony of the Straits Settlements and adjacent waters; Her Majesty, having taken the same into consideration, was pleased, by the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the Proclamation approved this day do take effect and come into force on the day on which it shall be promulgated in Her Majesty's said Colony of the Straits Settlements by the Governor or Officer administering the Government thereof.
And the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, and the Right Honourable Gathorne Hardy, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions accordingly.
(Signed)
C. L. PEEL.
DRAFT PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by a Proclamation issued by Our Order in Council, dated the 26th day of June 1867, it was declared and ordained that, from and after the date of the publication thereof, the dollars and other coins referred to therein should be issued in payments to Our forces in Our Colony of the Straits Settlements at the rate of four shillings and threepence to each dollar.
And whereas it is expedient that the rate of issue prescribed by the aforesaid Proclamation should be revised; and whereas it is also expedient that an uniform rate of issue should be prescribed for both Our Land and Naval forces and for other Imperial services, if any, in Our said Colony of the Straits Settlements and adjacent waters.
Now We, by the advice of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to, and do hereby, declare and ordain that, on and after the date of the promulgation of this Our Proclamation, the aforesaid Proclamation issued by Our Order in Council, dated the 26th day of June 1867, shall be repealed and annulled.
And We do further declare and ordain that, on and after the aforesaid date of promulgation of this Our Proclamation, the silver dollar of Mexico and any other silver dollar of equal value, and the silver and other coins representing fractional parts of such dollars, duly authorised to be a legal tender of payment in Our said Colony of the Straits Settlements, shall be issued in payments to Our Land and Naval forces and for Our other Imperial services, if any, in Our said Colony and adjacent waters, at the rate of four shillings and one penny to each dollar.
Provided that this Proclamation shall not have a retrospective effect in respect of such payments to Our Naval forces as may be made before the Paying Officers were aware of the same.
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50-1275. Wt. 9018.