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Sec. 1. Rupees to be received and paid at Treasury at the rate of 220 for every 100 dollars.
Sec. 2. Proviso for payments of postage at 45 cents per rupee (this rate for payments for postage altered by Ordinance No. 17 of 1867), and for payment of stamp duties at 44 cents per rupee.
Sec. 3. Public accounts to be kept in dollars and cents. Sec. 4. Salaries of public officers, exchange for. Act 17 of 1867. To alter the rate of exchange for payments for postage provided for in section 2 of Ordi- nance No. 5 of 1867.
Order in Council, 27 November 1875.
Rate for issue
of silver dollar to H.M.'s troops reduced from 4s. 3d. to 48. 1d.
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Coins in circulation.
Hong Kong dollar of 1866.
Mexican dollar, old.
of 1868.
new.
eagle, 1873.
Japanese dollar or yen.
United States trade dollar.
Amount of coin in circulation not known.
Amount of paper currency in circulation :~~
Singapore.
Oriental Bank Corporation
254,046
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India,
London, and China
655,522
Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China-
836,528
Penang.
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India,
London, and China
482,454
Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China -
400,497
Accounts kept in dollars and cents.
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NEW SOUTH WALES.
NEW SOUTH
Imperial Act, 2 Gul. 4. cap. 34. (23 May 1832). For WALES. consolidating and amending the laws against offences relating to the coin.
Imperial Act, 16 & 17 Vict. cap. 48. (4 August 1853). For the punishment of offences in the Colonies in relation to the coin.
Imperial Act, 16 & 17 Vict. cap. 102. (20 August 1853). To prevent the defacing of the current coin of the realm.
Imperial Act, 33 Vict. cap. 10. (4 April 1870). To consolidate and amend the law relating to the coinage and Her Majesty's Mint.
Order in Council, 19 August 1853. Establishment of
a branch of the Royal Mint at or near Sydney.
Order in Council, 18 October 1854, and Royal Procla- mation of same date, making Sydney Mint sovereigns and half sovereigns a legal tender in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania.
Order in Council, 3 February 1866, and Royal Procla- mation of same date, making Sydney Mint gold coins a legal tender in Great Britain and Ireland.
Order in Council, 10 November 1866, and Royal Pro- clamation of same date, making Sydney Mint gold coins a legal tender in certain of Her Majesty's possessions abroad.
Order in Council, 14 January 1871, and Royal Procla- mation of same date, ordering that from and after date of Proclamation in the Colony the Sydney Mint gold coins shall be of like designs as the corresponding coins of the currency of this realm, and giving currency to such coins.
Order in Council, 23 November 1877. Specimens of gold coins made at Sydney Mint need no longer be sent home. (So much of Order in Council of 19 August 1853 revoked.)
31/79 7127
12 July 1826
Local Act, 5 Geo. 4. No. 1 (28 September 1824). To Repealed by 7 make promissory notes and bills of exchange payable in Geo. 4 cap. 3., Spanish dollars available as if such notes and bills had (see below). been drawn payable in sterling money of the realm.
Local Act, 7 Geo. 4. No. 3 (12 July 1826). To repeal above Act, 5 Geo. 4. No. 1., and to promote the circula- tion of sterling money of Great Britain in New South Wales.
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