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Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian dollar no longer to be a legal tender.
Sec. 3. Provides that the dollar in any contract before passing of Act shall mean 4s. 2d.
Proclamations.
1. Relating to the gold coins of the United States of America, viz. :-
The double eagle, the eagle, half eagle, quarter eagle, &c., and gold dollar, as per Queen's Proclamations of the 19 August 1853 and 9 March 1854.
2. The gold coins made at the Branch Mint at Sydney made a legal tender, see Proclamation 24 January 1867.
Coins in Circulation.
British gold and silver.
Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian doubloons at €4s., and aliquot parts as in Proclamation 14 September 1838.
United States gold coins, viz. :---
The double cagle
The half eagle
The quarter do.
The dollar
£ s. d.
4 2 0
-
1 1 0
0 10 3
0 4 1
Amount of coin in circulation estimated at from 50,000l. to 80,0007.
The Colonial bank notes are the only paper currency in the Colony.
The public accounts are kept in pounds, shillings, and pence. At the Colonial Bank in dollars and cents.
TOBAGO.
Ordinance No. 14 of 1879. Ordaining that tender of payments in the Spanish, Mexican, or Columbian silver coins called dollars shall cease to be taken and deemed a legal tender.
Sec. 4. Dollar in any agreement entered into before passing of Act to mean 4s. 2d.
Ordinance No. 14, 1 May 1879. To declare the Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian dollar not a legal
tender.
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Proclamations giving currency to gold coins of certain foreign countries, including the United States of North America and to those made at the Branch Mint of Sydney, are as follow :--
5 November 1838 recites Order in Council of the 14th
of September 1838.
12 November 1853 recites Royal Proclamation of the
14th of September 1838.
8 May 1854. Proclaiming Royal Proclamation of the 9th of March 1854, for extending the provisions of Her Majesty's Royal Proclamation of the 19th of August 1853.
27 May 1871. Proclaiming Her Majesty's Royal Pro- clamation of the 14th of January 1871, for giving currency to gold coins made at the Sydney Branch Mint.
The moneys commonly in circulation are British coins and Colonial bank notes. Doubloons and other foreign gold coins are very seldom seen.
The coins in circulation are British gold, silver, and copper.
Amount in circulation not known.
Amount of paper currency in circulation not known. Accounts kept in British sterling and also in dollars and cents.
ST. LUCIA.
Declaring
Royal Proclamation, 14 September 1838. Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian doubloons and dollars legal tender and to be received, the doubloon as of the value of 648. sterling and the dollar as of the value of 4s. 2d. sterling.
Order in Council of 1 April 1841. Ordering the cur- rency of the United Kingdom known under the denomi- nation of pounds, shillings, and pence sterling to be the sole and exclusive currency and moneys of account recognised as legal in the said Island.
Royal Proclamation, 19 August 1853. Declaring gold coins of the United States of North America to be of the full value and equivalent to current money of the United Kingdom at the following rates: The eagle at the rate of 41s. sterling, half eagle at 20s. 6d., quarter eagle at 10s. 3d., and the gold dollar at 4s. Id.
ST. LUCIA.
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