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Proclamation, to declare that the silver 5 pesota pieces shall not be legal tender for any sum exceeding 50 pesetas.

6. Provided always, that until any Proclamation to the contrary shall have been issued by the Governor of Gibraltar, for the time being, the gold and silver, but not the base silver or copper coins described in the schedule annexed to the Order in Council of the 21st February 1872, may be tendered in payment of any sum or sums which may be or become due in Gibraltar to any person whatsoever at the rate of 1 dollar to 5

pese- tas. But no greater number of such pieces shall be tendered in any one payment than authorised in the said schedule.

7. Her Majesty and every person who, if this Order in Council had not been made and passed, would have been entitled to receive any sum of money in the cur- rency, and according to the denominations used in Gib- raltar under the Order in Council of the 21st February 1872, namely, doblones and dollars shall be entitled to receive as follows →→

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5 pesetas. For every dollar Provided that when any contract has been made before the passing of this Order in Council for the payment of any sum in doblones d'Isabel, such coins being specified by name, or when it may be proved that any sum has been advanced on loan in the gold coins included in the schedule annexed to the Order in Council of the 21st February 1872, payments under such contract or on account of such advance shall be made either in gold doblones d'Isabel or in the coins included in the sche- dule annexed to this Order in Council at the rate of doblon d'Isabel. every

26 pesetas for

Her Majesty and every person who, if this Order in Council and the Order in Council of the 21st February 1872 bad not been passed, would have been entitled to receive from any person in Gibraltar any sum of money assessed in the denominations of the lawful money of the United Kingdom, shall be entitled to receive the same, either in gold doblones d'Isabel at the rate speci- fied in the 6th section of the Order in Council of the 21st February 1872, or in the coins included in the schedule annexed to this Order in Council at the rate of 25 pesetas and 22 centimos for every pound sterling.

8. Provided that nothing herein contained shall vary or alter the rate at which payment shall be made at

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Gibraltar of any sum of money due or payable or to become due or payable by Her Majesty's Deputy Post- master at Gibraltar, under or by virtue of any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, or instruction of the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury or the Postmaster General,

9. It shall be lawful for the Governor, subject, never- theless, to such general and other instructions for his guidance as he may from time to time receive to make and pass such Ordinances, and to make and publish such Proclamations as to him shall seem necessary for the purpose of preventing the making or circulating in, or introducing into Gibraltar, any false or counterfeit coin whatsoever, or any matter or thing resembling or appa- rently intended to resemble, or to pass for any of Her Majesty's lawful current gold, or silver, or bronze coin, or for the coin of any other State, and to prevent the commission of offences, and to punish offenders against the prerogative of Her Majesty relating to coin, and otherwise to carry this Order in Council into effect.

C. L. PEEL.

SCHEDULE.

TABLE showing the COINS herein expressly authorised to be CURRENT in GIBRALTAR, their VALUE, METAL, and FINENESS, their LIMIT of TENDER, and the MINIMUM WEIGHT at which each coin is to be a legal tender.

Pesetas.

Centimos.

Value.

Weight.

Minimum

Metal

Fineness.

Grains Troy,

Grammes.

Limit of Tender.

Weight

at which

to be

Legal

Tender.

Grains

Troy.

100

[497 806 82-25808

495 317

50

248-903 16.12903

247 659

25

Gold

10

&

*900 |124*451 8.06451

49.760 3.22580 24-890 1.61290

None

123-829

49.531

24 766

5

*900

(888.800 25

Nove

381.942

2

*835

154 320 10-

146*604

1

Silver

835

77 160 5.

73-302

50

20

* 835 *835

38.580 2.50

50 pesetas

36-651

15'432 1.

14.660

154 320 10.

.40

· 10

77-160 5-

30+864 2- 15.432 1-

1 peseta

Noue.

འབའ

·Bronze--

Copper 950

Tia Zinc

€ 2

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