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Sec. 7. In process the amount sued for to be stated in sterling.

Act No. 1 of 1877. To demonetize silver dollars, Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian.

Coins in Circulation.

Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian :

Doubloon

Half doubloon

Quarter doubloon

Eighth

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Sixteenth

Dollar

Half dollar Quarter dollar

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American gold coin, eagle

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s. d.

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3 4

1 12

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0 16

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0 8 0

0

4

0 4 2

0 2 1

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British silver and

copper coins.

£ s. d.

2 1 0

half eagle

1 0 6

quarter eagle

0 10 3

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gold dollar

0 4 2

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Amount of coin in circulation not known. Paper currency.-None except that of the Colonial Bank, the amount of which is not known.

Accounts are kept in dollars and cents as well as in sterling.

GIBRALTAR.

At the Court at Windsor, the 2nd day of May 1881. Present, the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the 21st February 1872, we were pleased, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to approve of the draft of a Proclamation declaring that the standard of value in our Colony of Gibraltar should be a certain gold coin of Spain, commonly called a doblon d'Isabel, and that the said doblon d'Isabel and the several other coins described in the schedule annexed to the said Order in Council should be the only sufficient tender in Gibraltar.

And whereas by decrees of the Spanish Government, dated 19th October 1868, and 21st March 1871, respec-

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tively, the doblon d'Isabel and its subdivisions are no longer coined, but a new currency system has been adopted in the kingdom of Spain.

And whereas it is therefore expedient that the new coins issued under the decrees of the Spanish Govern- ment, dated 19th October 1868 and 21st March 1871, should be made legal tender in that Colony, in the place of the coins described in the schedule annexed to the Order in Council of 21st February 1872, which are no longer coined in Spain.

Now we, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby declare and ordain that, from and after a day to be fixed by the Governor or Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Gibraltar by Procla mation, the said Order in Council, dated 21st February 1872, and the Proclamation dated the 1st April 1872, regulating the currency of Gibraltar shall be revoked and cancelled. Provided that such revocation and can- cellation shall not be held to revive any Order in Council or Proclamation of Her Majesty and Her predecessors, or of any Officer Administering the Government of Gibraltar repealed by the said Order in Council and Proclamation hereby revoked and cancelled.

2. The standard of value in Gibraltar shall benceforth be the gold coin of Spain commonly called the Alfonso, or piece of 25 pesetas, containing 124 45 grains troy of gold of fineness.

3. The said Alfonso, or 25 pesetas piece, and the several other Spanish coins described in the schedule to this Order in Council annexed, not being clipped, pierced, or otherwise disfigured, nor being defaced otherwise than by lawful wear and being of the metal, weight, and fineness named in the said schedule shall be a good and valid tender in Gibraltar, and shall be the only sufficient tender (except in this Proclamation other- wise specially provided) in payment of any sum or sums of money which may be or become due there to any person whatsoever.

4. Provided always, that the silver coin of less value than 5 pesetas shall not be legal tender for any sum exceeding 50 pesetas.

And that the copper or bronze coin shall not be legal tender for any sum exceeding 1 peseta.

5. But it shall be lawful for the Governor of Gibral- tar, for the time being, at any time, with the consent of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by

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