Preliminary holograph notes for MINT00302 (Mint 19/2/193-4)

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800000 \pieces of 8/ at 5 per cent comes to 40000 Piastres per ann. To be {re}paid in the same species.

Eight \or nine/ hundred thousand Mexico Dollars to be delivered at Port Mahon by tale & weight at Port & an acc^t to be taken by person deputed on both sides. The weight to be taken only of the whole. Interest to be allowed at the rate of five Dollars p^r cent, {illeg}|o|r 40000 Dollars per an to be paid half yearly. And the principall money to be repaid in Dollars of the same \number/ species & weight at Genoa at y^e end of two years. The interest & principal to be paid in Mexico of th Dollars, of in \so much/ other money or bullion w^ch at Genoa shall be of the same |{|value to y^e Merchant w^th so many Mexico Dollars./intrinsic value w^th an allow or standard weight, recconing\ |Mexico Dollars 1^dwt wors{illeg}|e| {illeg}|i|n finenes then sterling money. And an Quære what allowanc|

8 or 9 \hundred/ thousand Mexico Dollars to be borrowed for two years at 5 p^r cent per an {illeg} {illeg}to be paid half yearly in like Dollars The interest & principal to be paid back in like dollars or other silver \in bullion/ \other silver/ of the same value.|,| |& the interest to be paid half yearly.|

Spanish pieces of $\frac{8}{8}$\These Dollars/ {illeg}|a|re valued ^{illeg}in England & Holland as Bullion & pass among the merchants by weight, & are 1^dwt worse then standard. If they can be weighed by Troy weights {illeg} (as they may be here if they should come for England) they may be received by such weight as bullion 1^dwt worse then standar our standard.

But if they cannot conveniently be weight they may be \told &/ received by {illeg}\as bullion by/ recconing every thousand \Dollers/ to weigh{t} 872 ounces Troy, provided they be not {cu} have not been culled since they came from the west-Indies. For they are found by Merchants to be of this weight within an ounce or two over or under when they first come to Europe.

NB. At this rate {illeg}|a| piece of $\frac{8}{8}$ is worth weighs 17^dwt_∟44 or 17^dwt 10^gr$\frac{14}{25}$

Mexico pieces of eight fresh out of the Mint weig are recconed \by Refiners/ to weigh 17^dwt$\frac{1}{2}$ one w^th another at {illeg}|\a/| {illeg}|m|edium. And I have seen a {parcel} \{illeg}|an| {Refiners} Refiners/ account of six\seven/ or {illeg}|e|ight parcels {told} {illeg} of {illeg}|12|00 in a parcel told, out \& weighed/ {to} the melting pot & a Refiner, {illeg}\each/ w^ch came to 87^lwt {illeg}|06|^oz each of w^ch \parcels/\each of w^ch conteined 1200 Dollars/ \&/ weight 87^lwt 6^{illeg}|oz| {illeg}|w|ithout erring above an ounce over or under\in the whole weight/\some of them exacted others without/\./ At this rate a tho{illeg}|u|sand Dollars will weigh {illeg}875 ounces Troy. And if the Dollars at Port Maho{illeg}|a| are \all of them/ perfectly unworn they may be received by this weight. But if they are a mixture of Dollars worn & unworn they may (for Merchants receive them {in} the west Indies\|in America| not of the Mint master/ |but| of the people for {their merchants}{illeg}\in America w^th whom they trade)/ they may be received received\taken received here/ at the weight of 872 \ounces/ per thousand\Dollars/{.}: three ounces in the weight of every thousand Dollars being abated for the wearing. For {illeg} Merchants find this to be their weight as they come from the West Indies. |Those that are unworn & fresh out of the Mint may be known by their glossy colour & the sharpness of their lines & edges.|

Pillar \{illeg}/ pieces are finer then the Mexico {illeg}|bu|t `\by about 6^{oz} in the pound weight {illeg}/ scarce so weighty. Refiners reccon them of about the same value Seven pieces are\with the Mexico/ by weight & fines together The \They are but few in number/ Sevil pieces are all worn there having {bee}n none of {illeg}|t|hem coined since the year 1686. Peru pieces are still worse.