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be confined to Mauritius and its dependencies. the inducement to export them would be small as compared with British silver, and a possible scarcity of small coins might thus be averted.
22. The probable necessity of providing your- self with a sufficient supply of rupees or other legal tender coins, with which to commence operations under the altered system; the adapta- tion of the forms of the public accounts to the new currency; and other minor points connected with the change, will suggest themselves to your consideration in the course of your preparatory arrangements, and, with reference to them, it is only necessary that I should urge upon you the importance, as soon as the new Currency Law is brought into force, of suppressing as far as possible, in all Government accounts and docu- ments relating to money transactions, the use of the old terms of pounds, shillings, and pence.
23. As from allusions occasionally made in previous correspondence, there would appear to be a prevalent feeling in the Colony that a re- adjustment of the Currency Law would obviate extreme fluctuations in foreign exchanges, I think it well to remind you that, while it is believed that the proposed alterations will place the cur- rency of Mauritius on a thoroughly sound basis, it must not be expected that they will remedy inconveniences which are solely due to the inequalities which from time to time occur between the value of the imports and exports of the Island.
I have, &c.
(Signed) CARNARVON.
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Draft Order in Council.
AT the Court at
the
day of
1875.
Present:
The Queen's Most Excellent MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board the draft of a Proclamation for the regulation of the currency of Her Majesty's Colony of Mauritius and its Dependancias (copy whereof is hereto annexed), and Her Majesty having taken the same into consideration, was pleased by and with the advice of Her Frivy Council to approve thereof, and to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the mid Proclamation do take effect and come into force in Her Majesty's Colony of Mauritius and its Dependencies in the manner thereby directed.
And the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, one of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
Draft Proclamation.
1. Whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date 1st February, 1843, We were pleased, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to approve of the draft of a Proclamation declaring that throughout Our Colony of the Mauritius and its Dependencies the gold and silver coins current in India or in the territories of foreign States should pass current respectively at the rates thereinafter specified, and that in all payments to be made in Our maid Colony of the Mauritius or its Dependencies tender of payment in the said coins or either of them abould be deemed and taken to be a lawful tender in the same manner as if such tender had been made in the current coin of the United Kingdom.
2. And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date 16th October, 1852, We ware pleased, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to approve of a draft of a Proclama- tion declaring that within and throughout Our Colonies in Australia and New Zealand, Ceylon and Mauritius, and Hong-Kong, the coins of the United Kingdom should pas current in the manner directed in the several Acts of Parliament, which regulate the currency of the same, and that the silver coins of the United Kingdom should not be a legal tender in payment of sums exceeding 40a
3. And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date 19th July, 1870, We were pleased by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to approve of a draft of a Proclamation, whereby the said Order in Council and Proclamation of the 1st day of February, 1843, was declared to be revoked and rescinded, so far as it related to French pieces of one and two franos, bat not further or otherwise; and it was further declared that the then new French pieces of one and two francs, respectively, should pass current throughout our Colony of the Mauritius and ita Dependencies at the rates thereinafter specified, and that payment in the said coins, or either of them, should be a lawful tender up to and not beyond the amount of of 21 sterling.
And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date the 22nd day of October, 1856, We ware pleased, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to approve of the draft of a Proclamation declaring the rates at which Australian sovereigns and half sovereigns, coined at the branch of Our Royal Mint at Sydney, in New South Wales, were to pass current in Our Colonies of Ceylon, Mauritius, and Hong-Kong.
And whereas by Our Proclamation, bearing date the 7th day of August, 1869, iazned under an Act made and passed in the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Our sign (cap. 65) We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, commanded that from and after the date of the publication of such Proclamation in the "London Gazette," coins made at the branch of Our Royal Mint at Melbourne in Victoria, of designs approved lgg Us, and being of the same weight and finenes sa ware required by law with rempoot so paid soins of the same denomination, made at Our Mint in London, should be a legal tender for payments
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