PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
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The Schedule to the Straits Settlements Coinage Order 1903, above referred to.
SCHEDULE.
Straits Settlements Dollar.
Standard Weight.
Least Current We'ght.
Coin.
Metal.
Millesima! Fineness.
Graina, Grammes,
Grains.
Grammes.
Straits Settlements Dollar
Silver
900
416-00
26.957
411-00
26-633
The remedy allowances for the Straits Settlements Dollar shall be as follows:-
Weight per piece.
@rains.
Grammes.
2.000
0-1296
Two thousandths.
40695
No. 46.
Millesimal Fineness.
SIR,
(India. 7714/03.)
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Enclosure 2 in No. 48.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Singapore, 7th September, 1903.
I AM directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 5007 A, of the 18th ultimo, regarding the method of payment of the seigniorage to be charged on the coinage of the new Straits dollars, and to inform you that His Excellency approves of the proposals contained in paragraph 2 of your letter under acknowledgment.
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I have, &c.,
É. BROADRICK
For Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.
No. 47.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 9th November, 1903.)
(No. 155.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 32.]
Government House, Singapore, 14th October, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to forward Ordinance No. XXIV. of 1903, entitled "An Ordinance to regulate the Import and Export of Coin into and from the Colony."
2. I also enclose a copy of the Attorney-General's report explaining the objects of the Ordinance, with his certificate that the Royal Assent may be properly given thereto.
I have, &c.,
W. T. TAYLOR:
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
SIR.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 9th November, 1903.)
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., 7th November, 1903.
I AM directed to transmit, for the information of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, a copy of correspondence which has recently taken place between the Governments of India and the Straits Settlements as to the seigniorage to be charged on the coinage in India of the new Straits dollar.
I have, &c.,
LIONEL ABRAHAMS,
Financial Secretary.
Enclosure 1 in No. 46.
E. N. BAKER, Esq., C.S.I., Secretary to the Government of India, Finance and Commerce Department, to the Honourable the COLONIAL SECRETARY, Straits Settlements.
No. 5007 A, dated the 18th August, 1903.
I am directed to address you regarding the method of payment of the seigniorage that will be charged on the coinage of the new Straits dollars.
2. It has been arranged that the seigniorage shall be calculated on the sterling value of the coins supplied, but no such value has yet been fixed for the new dollar. Pending the determination of a fixed rate of exchange, as contemplated in para- graph 60 of the report of the Straits Settlements Currency Committee, it appears to the Government of India that the simplest plan will be to calculate the amount payable in dollars and to convert this into rupees at the current exchange rate of the day. It is proposed, therefore, that the Accountant-General, Bombay, on receiving a report from the Mint Master of the amount due in dollars, shall realise it by selling a bill of exchange on the Government of the Straits Settlements. I am to enquire whether His Excellency the Governor has any objection to the adoption of this course. The matter will be subject to reconsideration when the sterling value of the coin is fixed.
Enclosure 1 in No. 47. ORDINANCE No. XXIV. OF 1903.
AN ORDINANCE to regulate the Import and Export of Coin into and from the Colony.
(1.8.)
F. A SWETTENHAM,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
[25th September, 1903.]
WHEREAS it is advisable to adopt certain measures to regulate the import and Preamble, export of coin into and from the Colony:
It is hereby enacted by the Governor of the Straits Settlements with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:-
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Coin Import and Export Ordinance, Short title, 1903."
2. For the purposes of this Ordinance the term banker" shall mean any Interpre corporation carrying on the business of bankers or financial agents in the Colony tation: and the term "money-changer" shall mean a person who carries on the business of "Bandrer," money-changing as his chief business.
3. (1) Subject to the approval of a Secretary of State it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by Order to prohibit the importation into the Colony of such coins whether legal tender within the Colony or not as are in such Order Governor specified.
"Money. changer."
Prohibi-
tion by
in Connell
(2)-It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council subject to the like approval of importa.
portation, by Order to prohibit the exportation from the Colony of such coins being legal tion, ex tender within the Colony as are in such Order specified.
(3)-It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by Order to prohibit the oulation circulation in the Colony of such foreign coins not being legal tender within the of coin. Colony as are in such Order specified.
and dir.
(4)-It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by Order to exempt any Country or State from the operation of any Order prohibiting the import into or export from the Colony of such coin as are in such Order specified.
4. Every such Order may subject to the like approval be rescinded or varied Order may in such manner as the Governor in Council may see fit.
be
rescinded
or varied,