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Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to transmit berewith a copy of a draft Order in Council regulating the currency of the Straits Settlements, and I am to request the favour of the observations of the Earl of Elgin thereon.

I am to add, with reference to Mr. Lucas's letter (45252/06) of the 14th ultimo,† that my

Lords are of opinion that the provisions of the Straits Settlements Coinage Order of the 2nd February, 1895, are sufficient to enable the five-cent piece to be

desirable. appear coined of copper or mixed metal, if that course should

I am, &c.,

E. W. HAMILTON.

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(b) This Order shall be read as one with the Order of 1895, the Order of 1908, and the Order of 1906, and may be cited as the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order, 1907.

And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and the Right Honour- able the Earl of Elgin, K.G., one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the requisite directions herein accordingly.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Straits Settlements Dollar.

A. W. FITZROY.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

LICO, 882

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERSSON OF THE

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Enclosure in No. 190.

[Copy to Governor, 13th February, 1907. No. 59. L.F. See No. 210.]

At the Court at Buckingham Palace,

The 11th day of February, 1907.

Present:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENt Majesty in COUNCIL.

Whereas under the Straits Settlements Act, 1866, and other powers enabling Him in that behalf, His Majesty has power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Colony of the Straits Settlements (in this Order referred to as the Colony).

And whereas by the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order, 1895 (in this Order referred to as the Order of 1895) and by the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order, 1903 (in this Order referred to as the Order of 1903), and by the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order, 1906 (in this Order referred to as the Order of 1906), provision is made with respect to the currency of the Colony, and it is expedient to make further provision with respect thereto.

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue of all powers vested in Him in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

(1) The Straits Settlements dollar coined under the provisions of the Order of 1903 shall be of the metal, weight, and fineness specified in the First Schedule to this Order, subject to the remedy therein specified, and that Schedule shall as respects coins issued after such date as may be fixed by the Governor of the Colony by proclamation be substituted for the Schedule to the Order of 1903, and Article two of the Order of 1906 is hereby revoked.

(2) The Straits Settlements fifty-cent piece, or half-dollar, shall be of the metal, weight, and fineness specified in the Second Schedule to this Order, subject to the remedy therein specified, and as respects coins issued after such date as may be fixed by the Governor of the Colony by proclamation the particulars contained in the said Second Schedule shall be substituted for so much of the Third Schedule to the Order of 1895 as relates to the metal, weight, and fineness of the Straits Settlements fifty-cent piece.

(8) Notwithstanding anything in Article Three of the Order of 1905, the Governor of the Colony may at any time, with the approval of the Treasury and a Secretary of State, issue a proclamation fixing for the subsidiary coins below the denomination of fifty cents mentioned in the Third Schedule to the Order of 1996 a new standard of weight or millesimal fineness, or both, and the particulars of those coins set forth in a Schedule to that proclamation shall, as respects the coins issued subsequently to the issue of the proclamation, be substituted for the corresponding particulars contained in the said Third Schedule. (4) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply for the purpose of the inter- pretation of this Order as it applies for the purpose of the interpre- tation of an Act of Parliament.

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Ooin.

Standard Weight.

Less Current Weight.

Hotal

Milloadmal Fineness.

Gralus.

Grammes.

Grains.

GRAMIRAS.

Silver.

900

312

20-217

208

19-958

Straits Settlements Dollar

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

Weight per place.

Graina.

Gramm.ca.

1-6

0-108

Three thousandths.

Colu

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Millesimal Finances.

Straits Settlements Fifty-Cent Piece or Half-Dollar.

Straits Settlements Fifty-cent

piece or Half-dollar.

Standard Weight.

Loses Current Weight.

Xetal.

Millenial Finenem.

Grains.

Grammes.

Graina.

Grammon

Silver,

900

156

10-108

154

9-979

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

643

Weight per Pleon.

Graina.

Grammes.

10

0-065

Three thousandths.

No. 191.

Millesimal Pinezzano.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 5th January, 1907.)

(Confidential.)

MY LORD,

[Answered by No. 196.]

Government House, Singapore, 13th December, 1908.

WITH reference to my confidential despatch of the [! 20th November]" on

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