LEEWARD ISLANDS. Gov. 42/80 $756
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Royal Proclamation, 9 March 1854. Declaring the rate fixed by Proclamation of 19 August 1853 for the gold coin of the United States called the eagle to apply pro portionately to the double eagle, or other multiple or multiples of the eagle. The double eagle to pass at the rate of 41. 28.
Royal Proclamation, 10 November 1866. Declaring gold coins made at the Branch Mint at Sydney to be a legal tender.
Local Proclamation, 6 October 1876. Declaring in ac- cordance with Royal Proclamations of 13 May 1869 and 24 March 1876 that no copper moneys, other than and except such bronze moneys as are current by virtue of Royal Proclamation of 17 December 1869, or by any subsequent Royal Proclamation, shall pass or be current in the Colony after the 31st day of March 1877.
To declare the Local Ordinance, No. 4 of 1876. Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian silver dollars not a legal tender.
Coins in circulation.-British gold, silver, and bronze. Amount of coin in circulation estimated at 10,000l. Amount of paper currency in circulation, which con- sists of notes of the Colonial Bank, was estimated for the year 1879 at about 11,000%.
The accounts are generally kept in pounds, shillings, and pence, but at the Colonial Bank in dollars and
cents.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
Act No. 11 of 1877 to demonetize silver dollars.
Antigua-Act No. 96 of 1847 to provide for the assimilation of the currency with that of Great Britain, and for the keeping of all accounts in the currency so established.
Sec. 1. Currency of the United Kingdom to be the currency of the Island.
Sec. 2. Current money to be converted into sterling at the rate of 100%, sterling for 2251. local currency.
Sec. 3. Public revenue and debts to be converted
into currency of the United Kingdom.
Sec. 4. Currency of foreign parts. Saving of rights
of chartered banks.
Sec. 5. Future debts, contracts, &c.
Sec. 6. Current money mentioned in wills.
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Sec. 7. As to fines, &c. in local currency imposed under previous Acts.
Sec. 8. Commencement of Act.
Act No. 5 of 1876. To demonetize silver dollars, Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian.
Coins in circulation.-British gold, silver, and copper, and the gold coins of the United States. Amount in circulation not known.
Paper currency.-The notes of the Colonial Bank pass current, but amount in circulation not known.
Accounts are kept in British sterling.
Montserrat.-Act, dated December 1864, to assimi- late the moneys to those of the United Kingdom, and to define the moneys mentioned in an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the poor and the care of ** lunatics."
Sec. 1. Current money of United Kingdom to be current money of Montserrat.
Sec. 2. All payments to be made in current money of United Kingdom at the rate of 1001. sterling for 2251. of local currency.
Sec. 3. All debts or revenues to be in currency of United Kingdom.
Sec. 4. All contracts, &c. prior to commencement of Act to be construed to be within the meaning of the Act.
Sec. 5. Act not to interfere with circulation of foreign coins under Her Majesty's Proclamations.
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Sec. 6. Moneys mentioned in "Act to provide for the poor, &c." to be deemed sterling money of Great
Britain.
Act No. 4 of 1876 to demonetize silver dollars, Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian.
Coins in circulation.-The British current coins of the United Kingdom.
The Spanish doubloon (31. Spanish silver dollar (4s. 2d.). United States, namely
The double eagle
The eagle
The half eagle
The quarter dollar
The gold dollar
48.), the Mexican and The gold coins of the
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£ s. d.
4+2100
2 0
1 0
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0
6
0 10 3
0 4 1
The amount of coin in circulation not stated.
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