Draft of MINT00416 (Mint 19/3/74)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/154, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  Recommend the commissioners for coinage in Scotland be paid a total of £700 between them [MINT 19/3/74]

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In obedience to yo^r Lord^ps Order of Reference of the 27^th of November last, upon the annexed Memorial of the three Comm^rs appointed by her Ma^tys late Privy Council of Scotland to receive all the Scotts & forreign coin & see it melted into Ingots & deliver the Ingots by weight & assay to the Master of the Mint to be coined at Edinburgh upon his Note to be coined, & to certify the deficiency; in w^ch Memorial they humbly desire that yo^r Lord^p will be pleased to appoint them a suitable reward for their own attendance & trouble & for paying their Clerk & other servants & defraying the daily charge they are put to, & grownd their Petition upon their Commission w^ch bears that they shall be sufficiently rewarded: We have considered the said Memorial, & because the buisiness of these Commissioners requires diligent attendance in their own persons & constant circumspection at the meltings, & their trust in receiving the old money by tale & weight & certifying the deficiency is also considerable, We are humbly of opinion that they may deserve for themselves & for paying their Clerk & other servants, {illeg}|a| reward after the rate of two pence per pound weight Troy of all the Ingots of silver delivered from the melting pott to the Master of the Mint to be coined.

And because these Comm^rs in conjunction with the Bank of Scotland, act as common Importers for all the people & in their service, & do the buisiness w^ch private Importers must have otherwise done for themselves or procured to be done at their own charge before their silver could have been delivered into the Mint to be coined, & are entrusted between the Comm^{illeg}|r|s of the Equivalent & th{illeg}|e| people to keep an acc^t of the importations & their deficiency: the charge of imploying these Comm^rs is in our humble opinion to be put upon the account of y^e Importers & allowed out of Equivalent as part of the losses w^ch private persons sustein by the recoinage of their money, this recoinag{illeg}|e| being required by the Act of Vnion & being impracticable without this allowance, & the Bank & <154v> Melter being paid out of the same fund.

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|The same| To be paid out of such a fund as the iudges of her Maj^ts Exchequer in North Britain shall think proper, upon a certificate of the weight of the Ingots signed by the Master & Wardens of the Mint.

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