Catalogue Entry: MINT00403
Proposed measures to be taken in the wake of Daniel Stewart's recent death. Presumably a variant of MINT00402 (Mint 19/3/131)
Contents
Suggests Stewart's post of bullion collector, 'being irregular', be suppressed, and the Edinburgh Mint's financial arrangements remodelled on London's. Stewart's executors should be ordered to hand back to the Mint a sum of between £2,500 and £5,000 owing to it. [The last paragraph (on recouping money from Stewart's executors) has been struck through.]
Related Material
Printed in NC, 4: 515-16. Signed holograph copy of the same date, without the deleted paragraph, in PRO, T1/106, no. 54. Further drafts at MINT00594 (Mint 19/5/30) and MINT00705 (Mint 19/5/29).
