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(Sec. 2.) The denominations of money in the cur- rency of Canada to be dollars, cents, and mills, the cent being one hundredth part of a dollar, and the mill one tenth part of a cent.
(Sec. 3.) The currency of Canada to be such that the British sovereign shall be equal to and pass current for four dollars eighty-six cents and two thirds of a cent. of the currency of Canada, and the half sovereign for one half the said sum.
(Sec. 6.) Her Majesty may cause gold coins to be struck for circulation in Canada and assign thereon value as a legal tender.
(Sec. 7.) The silver, copper, or bronze coins which Her Majesty has caused to be struck for circulation in Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick to be a legal tender in Nova Scotia and throughout Canada. All such silver coins to be a legal tender to the amount of ten dollars, and such copper or bronze coins to the amount of twenty-five cents, in any one payment.
(Sec. 8.) No other silver, copper, or bronze coins than those which Her Majesty shall have caused to be struck for circulation in Canada, or in some Province thereof, shall be a legal tender.
(Sec. 9.) Her Majesty may by Proclamation fix the rates at which any foreign gold coins shall pass current and be a legal tender in Canada. The gold engle of the United States, coined after the 1st July 1834, and before the 1st of January 1852, or after the said day, but while the standard of fineness for gold coins then fixed by the laws of the United States remains unchanged, aud weighing ten pennyweights, eighteen grains, Troy weight, shall pass current and be a legal tender in Canada for ten dollars, and the gold coins of the said United States being multiples and halves of the said eagle, and of like date and proportionate weights, shall pass current and be a legal tender in Canada for proportionate sums.
34 Vict. cap. 5. An Act relating to banks and banking. Statutes of 1871, page 24.
34 Vict. cap. 6. An Act to provide additional facilities for depositing savings at interest with the security of the Government, and for the issue and redemption of Dominion notes. Statutes of 1871, page 48.
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35 Fict. 7. An Act to amend the Act regulating the issue of Dominion notos. Statutes of 1872, page 30.
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39 Vict. cap. 4. An Act to extend the Acts respecting
Dominion notes to the Provinces of Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, and Manitoba. Statutes of 1876, page 22.
44 Vict. cap. 4., 1881. An Act to extend the Act establishing one uniform currency for the Dominion of Canada to the Provinces of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island.
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An Act in force is chapter 92 of the Consolidated Statutes of 1872:
Section 1. Denomination of money.---Dollars and cents. The cent to be one hundredth part of a dollar.
Section 2. The sovereign to be equal to four dollars and eighty cents currency, and parts of a sovereign at the like rate.
Section 3. The gold eagle of the United States of the value prescribed (same as in sec. 9 of Canada Act, 34 Vict. cap. 4., see above) to pass current for nine dollars and eighty-five cents currency, and parts thereof at the
like rate.
Section 4. British silver coins to be current after the rate fixed for the gold coins of the United Kingdom, according to the proportion such silver coins bear to such gold coins. No tender in silver to a greater amount than ten dollars to be valid.
Section 5. The foreign gold coin called the doubloon, containing 362 grains of pure gold, to be a legal tender in currency for 15 dollars and 35 cents.
Section 6. The American, Peruvian, Mexican. Colum- bian, and old Spanish dollars, being of the full weight of 416 grains, and containing not less than 373 grains of pure silver, to pass current at the rate of 100 cents each, and the several divisions of such coins after the like rate. No tender of such coins to a greater amount than 10 dollars to be valid.
Section 7. Government may import copper or bronze coins. Amount of tender in cents and half cents limited
o 25 cents. British bronze currency in circulation.
Section 8. Gold and silver coins, dollars, &c. may be struck.
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