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under Royal Charter in 1836, and now trades under the Imperial Act, 19 Vict. cap. 3, which extends the powers of the bank.
The Island Act, regulating banks not established under Royal Charter or by Act of Parliament, is the Act 17 Vict. cap. 47.
Coins in Circulation.
Old Mexican, average
British coins
Gold doubloons :
Columbian
£ 8. d. 3 6 0 3 4 0
Aliquot parts in proportion.
American:
Double eagle
Single
"
>>
-
4 2 0
42100
~100+
0
6
0 10 3
No
15
copper coin in circulation.
Mexican and other dollars made a legal tender at 4s. 2d. in 1838 were demonetized by Jamaica, Law 10 of 1880.
Payments in silver; unlimited as to amount. Amount of coin in circulation not known.
No paper currency.
The Act of the Bahamas, 2 Vict. cap. 4., extended to the Turks Islands, declares British sterling money to be the legal money of accounts, but in consequence of the frequent communications with the United Statos of America the practice prevails of keeping commercial accounts in dollars and cents.
Accounts in the public departments are kept in pounds, shillings, and pence.
TURKS ISLANDS.
Half
Quarter Dollar
Nickel coins:
Penny
Halfpenny
-
4 1
0
0
1
-
0 0 0
Amount of coin in circulation estimated in 1880 at 300,0001
Paper currency in circulation.
Colonial Bank notes; average circulation for the year 1879-80, 140,7617.
Accounts kept in British sterling.
TURKS ISLANDS.
British gold and silver coins of all denominations :-- £ 3. d. American gold:
The double eagle at the rate of
And other gold coins in proportion, under Proclamations of 19 August 1853 and 9 March 1854.
Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian dou-
bloon
Under Proclamation 14 September
1838.
American half dollars-
quarter dollars
4 2 0
-
3 4 0
-
0 2 0
0 1 0
Under Proclamation 20 November 1866.
BRITISH HONDURAS.
In consequence of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 14 September 1838 the superintendent issued a Procla- mation dated 15 November 1838, but withheld a sub- sidiary Order, which he subsequently published in 1839 by direction. Only record of publication is in Despatches 44 of 10 December 1838 and 14, of 3 July 1839.
B. HON- DURAS.
114/78 700/79
Proclamation
On 23 November 1853 a Proclamation was published Copies of the consequent on Her Majesty's Order in Council 19 August of 28 Nov./53, 1853, fixing the rates at which the gold coins of the and of these United States were to be received, namely:---
The eagle at the rate of 41s.
The half eagle at the rate of 20s. 6d. The quarter eagle at the rate of 10s. 3d. The gold dollar at the rate of 4s. Id.
The following local laws are in force :--
12 Vict. cap. 6. An Act relating to British copper coin. Copper coin of the United Kingdom to be deemed current
coin.
Sec. 2 limits the legal tender of such copper coin to 1s. at one payment, or Is. in the pound.
18 Vict. cap. 16. To alter and define the currency. Currency to be in dollars and rials, the dollar being
Aets enclosed in Despatch No. 27 of 24 Feb./70.
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