CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 576

British dollar -

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SCHEDULE.

Hong Kong (Coin).

DRAFT ORDER IN COUNCIL.

British Dollar.

At the Court at

held the

day of

Standard Weight.

Quin.

Metal.

Millesimast Fineness.

Graina, Grammes.

LeastsCurrent Weight.

Greina. Grammes.

Silver

900

416.00 25.957

411·00

26-633

The remedy allowances for the British dollar shall be as follows :--

Weight per Piece.

Grains,

Grammes,

Millesimal Fineness,

2-000

0+1296

Two thousandths.

PRESENT:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN

COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by virtue of the laws repealed by this Order, certain silver dollars are legal tender in Our Colony of Hong Kong;

And whereas it appears to Us, by the advice of Our Privy Council, that it is expedient to repeal the said laws and to make a law respecting the coins which are to be the subject of contract and to constitute legal tender in Our said colony;

Now, therefore, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, and by virtue of all powers vested in Us in that behalf, do hereby ordain and enact as follows: And the Lords Com- missioners of Our Treasury, and

one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the requisite directions herein accordingly.

coin for

1.-1.) The Mexican silver dollar of the standard weight and Standard millesimal fineness specified in the First Schedule to this Order contracts. shall be the standard coin of Our Colony of Hong Kong, in this Order referred to as the Colony.

(2.) Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument, and security for money, and every transaction, dealing, matter, and thing whatever relating to money, or involving the payment of or the liability to pay any money, shall, in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, be held to be made, executed, entered into, done, and had in the Colony, according to the standard coin of the Colony.

(3.) The coins mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order shall be treated as equal to the standard coin.

2. If on the report of the Governor of the Colony, the New dollur. Commissioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State from time

to time declare that they consider any dollar not mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order to be equivalent in value to the standard

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