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CEYLON.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1857. To amend the Ordinance No. 5 of 1854, entitled "To consolidate and amend the laws against offences relating to the coin."
Order in Council, 18 June 1869. Proclaimed by the annexed Local Proclamation, 23 August 1871.
Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith.
PROCLAMATION by his Excellency Sir HERCULES GEORGE
ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Ceylon, with the Dependencies thereof.
HERCULES ROBINSON,
WHEREAS by the Proclamation annexed to Her Majesty's Order in Council, dated the 18th day of June 1869, it is ordained and declared that from and after a day to be fixed by the Governor or Officer Administering the Government of Ceylon, by Proclamation, and sub- ject to further directions to be given by Proclamation of the Governor, the British and local copper or bronze coins or tokens at present in circulation in Her Majesty's Colony of Ceylon and its Dependencies, and such other copper or bronze tokens as may from time to time be specified by the Governor by Proclamation, shall be a legal tender of payment for any sum not exceeding half a rupee; the said British and local coins to continue current until the date of such Proclamation, at the same rates, as regards the rupee, as those at which they at present pass by long established
and custom, usage
viz. :-
The penny at the rate of 3rds of an anna, or 8 pie.
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And whereas it is expedient and desirable to establish certain other copper or bronze coins or tokens, repre- senting certain decimal parts of a rupes, as a legal tender for payment for any sum not exceeding half a rupee:
And whereas there will shortly be issued by the Government of Ceylon copper or bronze coins or tokens, as follows:-
A copper or bronze five-cent. piece, representing one-
twentieth part of a rupee.
A copper or bronze one-cent. piece, representing one-
hundredth part of a rupee.
A copper or bronze half-cent. piece, representing one
two-hundredth part of a rupee.
And every such piece shall have for the obverse im- pression the effigy of Her Majesty, with the inscription Victoria, Queen," and for the reverse impression the representation of a Talipot Palm, and an inscription indicating the value of the piece in cents of a rupee, with the word Ceylon," and the date of the year, and words indicating the value in Sinhalese and Tamil:
Now, therefore, We, the said Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the authority vested in Us by the afore- said Proclamation, do hereby proclaim and direct that the said copper or bronze coins or tokens so to be issued as aforesaid, shall from and after the 1st day of January 1872, be lawfully current, and shall pass and be received as current and lawful tokens and payment within the Island of Ceylon and the Dependencies thereof, at and for the rates and values indicated thereon, and at no other rates or values. Provided, however, that no person shall be required to receive more than one half- rapee in
copper or bronze coins or tokens at one time. And we do hereby further proclaim and direct, that until further lawful proclamation and direction to the contrary, the British and local copper or bronze coins or tokens now current in this Colony shall continue (subject to what is herein provided and directed) to pass and be received as current and lawful tokens and legal tender for payment, at the rates and values following, that is to say :-
The penny at the rate of 4th of a rupee.
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halfpenny
51
Ard
35
farthing
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4th
3
halfpeuny
3
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51
Ceylon fanam
23
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1 anna.
farthing
33
33
2
stiver or pice
AJ
th
3
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14
Ceylon fanam
38th
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1th
急加
challie
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12th
1
+3
stiver or pice
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A
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4th
コラ
challie
25
rband
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