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No. 200.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
(Confidential.)
SIR,
Downing Street, 28th March, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your confidential despatches of the 24th and 31st of January, and to forward, for your information and guid- ance, the enclosed copies of correspondencet with the Treasury with regard to the question of recoining the subsidiary coin.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
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Coins issued after the said fourth day of March, 1907, be substituted for the Schedule to the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order 1903.
Sa
Given at Singapore, this Fourth day of March, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and seven.
By His Excellency's Command,
ARTHUR YOUNG,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING
The following is the First Schedule to the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order 1907 referred to above:---
STRAITS SETtlements Dollar.
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No. 210.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 13th April, 1907.)
[Copy of Proclamations to Treasury, 16th April, 1907. L.F.]
(No. 181.) MY LORD,
Government House, Singapore, 20th March, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch, No. 59, of the 15th ultimo, forwarding copies of an Order of His Majesty the King in Council entitled "The Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order 1907," and to forward herewith six copies of each of two Proclamations which I have issued under the Order in Council.
I have, &c.,
JOHN ANDERSON.
Sinndard Weight.
Leet Current Weight.
Oois.
Metal.
Milloadmal Fineness.
Grains.
Graine
Grammes.
Straits Settlements Dollar
Bilver
900
312
20.217
806
19.958
The remedy allowance for the Straits Settlements dollar shall be as follows:
Weight per Pisos.
Grains.
Grammas.
1.6
0.108
Three thousandths.
Millenial Pinonem,
Enclosure 1 in No. 210.
In the name of His Majesty KING EDWARD, the Seventh of that Name, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.
PROCLAMATION
By His Excellency Sir JoHN ANDERSON, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements.
(L.B.)
JOHN ANDERSON,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
Whereas by the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order 1907, made the lilth day of February, 1907, it was among other things ordained and enacted by His Majesty King EDWARD the Seventh in Council that the Straits Settlements dollar coined under the provisions of the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order 1908, should be of the metal, weight and fineness specified in the First Schedule to the aforesaid Order of 1907, subject to the remedy therein specified, and that the said First Schedule should as respects Coins issued after such date as might be fixed by the Governor of the Colony by proclamation be substituted for the Schedule to the aforesaid Order of 1903, and that article two of the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order 1906, should be revoked :
Now, I, Sir John Anderson, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the aforesaid Order of the 11th day of February, 1907, and of every power enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim that from and after the fourth day of March, 1907, the First Schedule to the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order, 1907, shall as respects
• Nos. 301 and 208. ↑ Nos. 308 and 905. ↑ L.F. transmitting copy of Enslosure in No. 190.
Enclosure 2 in No. 210.
In the name of His Majesty KING EDWARD, the Seventh of that Name, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.
PROCLAMATION
By His Excellency Sir Joan Andison, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlementa.
(L.8.)
JOHN ANDERSON,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
Whereas by the Straits Settlements (Coinage) Order 1907, made the 11th day
His Majesty February, 1907, it was among other things ordained and enacted King EDWARD the Seventh in Council that the Straits Settlem or half-dollar should be of the metal, weight, and fineness Schedule to the mid Order, subject to the remedy tharain respects Coins issued after such date as might be food by the by proclamation, the particulars onhitised in the said Geomm substituted for so much of the Third Gobedule to the &ftrait Self) Order of 1865 as relates to the metal, weight and finssions of the fifty-cent piese :
Now, 1, Bir John Anderson, Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint Georgs, Goverbor and the Straits Settlements, in excernise of the Order of the 11th day of February, 1907, behalf, do hereby proclaim thus from and i particulars contained in the Second Säh Order 1907, shall be substitzied for so
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