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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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TTIC.O. 882

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

rency, I have the honour to inform you that on the 8th instant I received the follow- ing telegram from His Excellency the Viceroy of India :—-

Following telegram sent to the Secretary of State for India: - Begins: Your telegram of the 24th April, Straits Settlements currency, we are pre- pared to undertake the proposed coining of dollars on the following terms:- Seigniorage to le ordinarily two per cent. on sterling value of coins supplied Coining to be distributed between the Calcutta and Bombay Mints as con- venient to us Coining liable to be suspended in the event of extraordinary and unexpected demands for rupees arising: in absence of such demands we could coin six crores dollars annually and probably more if desired. Material excess over six crores would entail working overtime and extra

Ends. half per cent seigniorage would be charged.

To this telegram I replied on the 10th instant as follows:-

When the Greatly obliged your secret telegram of the 8th instant. design of the new coin is settled we shall want two crores quickly, the same quantity in the next year, and that supply may meet our wants for some

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time.

No. 16.

I have, &c.,

F. A. SWETTENHAM

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 9.20 a m. 18th June. 1903.)

TELEGRAM.

[Answered by Nos. 17 and 18.]

When shall I begin shipping dollars for reminting? Should it go to Calcutta or Bombay?

I am told that large quantities of Mexicans now being shipped for Singapore from England and elsewhere and I am again strongly advised to prohibit import

Please instruct.-SWETTENHAM.

of this coin.

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No. 17.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR (Sent 5 p.m.. 20th June, 1903.) TELEGRAM

Referring to your telegram of 18th June,* Government of India have been requested to communicate direct with you regarding arrangements for supply of

silver.

My reply to last part of your telegram will be sent as soon as possible.-

CHAMBERLAIN

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No. 18.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.

(Sent 4.30 p.m., 25th June, 1903.)

TELEGRAM.

[Answered by No. 20.]

Referring to your telegrams of 18th June, 22nd June,t see no reason prohibit importation of Mexican and British dollars before time contemplated in Report of Committee, paragraph 58.-CHAMBERLAIN.

No. 16.

↑ No. 16, and 22948: not printed.

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No. 19.

[Copy to Governor, 3rd July, 1903, No. 223, and to India Office, 6th July, 1903.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace,

The 25th day of June, 1903. Present,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

L.F.]

WHEREAS under the Straits Settlements Act, 1866, and other powers enabling Us in that behalf, We have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of Our Colony of the Straits Settlements (in this Order referred to as

the Colony "):

And whereas, by Order in Council dated the second day of February eighteen hundred and ninety-five (in this Order referred to as "the Order of 1895"), pro- vision is made with respect to the currency of the Colony, and it is expedient to make further provision with respect thereto :

NOW, THEREFORE, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, and by virtue of all powers vested in Us in that behalf, do hereby ordain and enact as follows:-

1. 1) A Straits Settlements Dollar shall be coined under the direction of the Master of Our Mint or at one of Our Mints in British India, and be of the metal, weight, and fineness specified in the Schedule to this Order, subject to the remedy therein specified.

(2) That dollar shall have for the obverse impression Our Effigy consisting of head and bust, wearing the Imperial Crown and the Robe of State, with the Collar of the Garter and the Badge of the Bath, and looking to the Right, with the legend "Edward VII. King and Emperor," and for the reverse impression a scroll, the upper and lower quarters of which shall contain the Chinese characters for "One Dollar," while the corresponding Malay characters shall be contained in the quarters to the right and left. The words "Straits Settlements" shall be inscribed above, and the words "One Dollar" and the date below the scroll.

2. For the purpose of making the Straits Settlements dollar legal tender in the Colony, the Order of 1895 shall, as from such date as may be fixed by the Governor of the Colony by proclamation, be read and apply as if the Schedule to this Order were added to the Second Schedule to that Order.

3. The Governor of the Colony may, by proclamation made with the consent of the Secretary of State, substitute the Schedule to this Order for the First Schedule to the Order of 1895, and accordingly as from the date mentioned in the proclamation the Order of 1895 shall be construed as if the standard coin were the coin described in the Schedule to this Order in substitution for the Mexican dollar described in the First Schedule of that Order, and as if the Mexican dollar as described in the First Schedule to that Order were comprised in the Second Schedule to that Order.

4. The Governor of the Colony may, by proclamation made with the consent of the Secretary of State, declare that any of the coins the descriptions of which for the time being form part of the Second Schedule to the Order of 1895 shall cease to be legal tender in the Colony, and so much of the Order of 1895, or any Order amending that Order, as makes tender of payment in that coin legal tender. shall, as from the date fixed in the proclamation, be repealed.

5. The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply for the purpose of the inter- pretation of this Order as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

6. This Order shall be read as one with the Order of 1885, and may be cited as the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order, 1903.

And the Lords Commissioners of Our Treasury, and the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the requisite directions herein accordingly.

A. W. FITZROY.

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SCHEDULE.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS DOLLAR.

Standard Weight

Least Current Weight.

Coin.

Metal.

Millerimal Pineness.

Graina.

Grammes.

Grains. Grammes.

Straita Settlements Dollar

Silver

900

416.00

26.957

411:00

26-633

The remedy allowances for the Straits Settlements dollar shall be as follows:-