CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860 — Page 325

the dollar

shall be

declared to

be the only legal tender,

all other coins being left to find their

Value

however that

obligations of

1%

contracted

be

British

On

secured

the existing

Jurisdiction

Government

the denomination

should

be discharged by the

payment of dollars at

the rate of

4/2

But several questions

remain

to be settled

first, what coin is

to be a legal tender in

payment of sums less

than

one dollar,

secondly whether

and if any, to what provision

is made for the indemnification

of persons who are in possession of Sovereigns

at the moment when

they are

demonetized or

who are subject to

obligations which before

the revocation

of

the

existing Proclamation

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