Holograph draft memorandum on organisation, staff and apparatus required for the Mint to handle tin

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/494, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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1 The Tower Wharf to be made a free Wharf for importing & exporting her Majestys Tinn, with liberty of bringing it into & carrying it out of the Mint without Let or Molestation & my Lord Abington to have notice thereof.

2 The Commissioners of the Customes to be directed to send an Officer to attend the unlading & lading of the Tin

3 A Crane Sledges Hooks, Lavers, Pulleys, Scales & Weights to be provided & Rooms to be made fit.

4 The Blocks of Tin to be numbered & weighed at their importation & the number & weight to be stamped upon them to save the labour of reweighing them at the delivery & the Number, Assay, gross weight & standard weight to be entered in books by the Clerks of the Mint.

5 A fair Copy to be made of the Number Assay & Gross weight of the Blocks & the Receiver or Treasurer at the foot of every leaf to signe a receipt of the Blocks above written.

6 The Clerks to compute the standard weight of the Blocks & to enter the same in their Books.

7 The standard weight of all the Blocks in every Receipt with their Price to be entered at the bottom of the Receipt or on the backside & signed y the Warden Master & Comptroller

8 The Warehouse-keeper to deliver the Blocks as they come to hand without giving leave to the Merchant to pick & chuse.

9 The Clerks to enter in Books the Number Assay gross weight standard weight & price of the Blocks delivered & the price to be paid before the Blocks go out of the Warehouse.

10 The Treasurer to pay weekly into the Exchequer the money received for the Tin, & the payments to be endorsed on the Receipts above mentioned

11. The Officers of the Mint to beare such parts in the management of this affair as are most conformable to their places in the Mint and particularly the Warden Master & Comptroller to make a Board with such powers & authorities as they have in the business of the Mint for making Orders & Reports & punishing Offenders, the Master to <494v> Receiver & Vndertreasurer with a Deputy for whom he will answer the Rooms where the busines is done belonging to the Officers, the Warden & Comptroller to be checks upon him & to have keys of the Treasury, the Assaymaster to Assays the Tin if there be occasion, the Weigher & Teller to weigh it, the Clerks of the Mint to entier it in Books & standard it & the Corporation of Moneyers (or one or some of them for whom the Corporation will be answerable to the < insertion from f 495r > Master to stamp it & < text from f 494v resumes > to have the custody of the Press Rooms & other places where the Tin is lodged.