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BA- HAMAS, 166/78 16803
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British Guiana Tokens:
$ cts.
Three guilder token 0 96 Two
0 64
0 32
One Half Quarter
•
0 16
55
13
0
8
"
"
One eighth
0 4
33
Bronze Coins:
4000000
0
0
0
200+0+N
4
1
Pennies and halfpennies at their current nominal
value.
British and Foreign gold is held by the banks, but there is very little in general circulation.
Amount of coin in circulation not known. Amount of paper currency in circulation :---
Colonial bank (in B. Guiana) British Guiana Bank
£ 71,078 73,044
Accounts are kept in dollars and cents, at the rate of 4s. 2d. to the dollar, in which there are 100 cents.
BAHAMAS.
28 Geo. 3. cap. 1. Regulating the value of certain gold and silver coins then current in the Colony has be- come obsolete though not repealed; the coins to which it referred having long since ceased to be in circula- tion.
An Act to ascertain and regulate 9 Geo. 4. cap. 18. the value within these Islands of a certain foreign coin called a peseta, and to indemnify the holders thereof, and to provide a fund therefor. The peseta to be re- ceived at the rate of five to the Spanish milled dollar of Ss. The unpillared double peseta, half peseta, and quarter peseta not to be a legal tender for any sum ex- ceeding one pound.
2 Vict. cap. 4. An Act to declare British sterling money to be the money of account throughout the Bahama Islands. The Bahamas currency to be conver- tible into sterling at the rate of 4s. 2d. for every 8s. of the said currency.
* None of these tokens are now coined.
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SCHEDULE.
Sterling.
Silver Dollars.
Bahama currency : 401. at 4s. 2d.
£ s. d. 20 16 8
100
8 Vict. cap. 49. An Act further to reduce the value within these Islands of a certain foreign coin called a peseta. Reduces value of peseta from 10d. to 9d. each. To be a legal tender up to 5., and the peseta to cease to be a legal tender at the expiration of one year.
13 Vict. cap. 23. An Act to fix and ascertain the value within the Bahamas Islands of certain French coins therein mentioned (five-frane piece). The said coin to pass at the rate of 38. 10d., and in like proportion for other French silver or gold coins of the same denomina- tion.
44 Vict. cap. 7, 1881. An Act to declare that tender of payment in Spanish, Mexican, or Columbian silver coins called dollars shall cease to be a lawful tender.
Proclamation, 15 October 1853, for bringing into opera- tion the Proclamation and Order in Council of the 19 August 1853, fixing the rates and providing for the circulation of the gold coins of the United States from 1 January 1854, namely :-
The double eagle at the rate of
The eagle
The half eagle -
The quarter eagle
The gold dollar
£ 8. d.
4 2 0
-
2
1 0
I 0 6
10
3
4 1
All coinage of the United States to circulate and be received in payment.
Proclamation, 20 February, 1864. Bronze coins brought into circulation.
Proclamation. 6 April 1864, fixing the silver half dollar of the United States at the rate of 2s., and the silver quarter dollar at ls. sterling.
The Attorney-General observes in his report on the currency, "I would also direct attention to a Royal Order "in Council dated September 1838, which, however, it is questionable whether subsequent local legislation on the subject has not now superseded," and see Circular De- spatch of the 15 September 1838, also Circular Despatch
$4
B 2
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