Memoranda on accounting, checking and packing

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/333, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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That the Master receive the copper by weight upon his Notes the same being first assayed & be discharged by delivering back the same weight of money & takingg back his Notes as in the coynage of gold & silver.

That the Master be allowed a Clerk to attend the deliveries & Meltings & enter all receiprs & deliveries between himself the Merchant the Melter the Moneyer the Graver &c.

That assay the blanks & moneys in weight (& also in goodness if it be thought necessary ) before all persons concerned.

That the Master be allowed for coynage per lw^t if the blanks be cast & not assayed in fineness, or $\frac{1}{4}$ ^d more for hazzards if cast & assayed, or if they be cut out of milled barrs & not assayed in fineness or $\frac{1}{2}$ more for hazzards if assayed.

That where payments are made in copper money there be an allowance of p^r cent. Or an Exchanger be appointed with an allowance of p^r cent for changing the copper money into silver.

That a pound weight be cut into so much money as will pay for the copper at the market price & make a seigniorage for defraying all other charges. And if at any time the money prove a little too light or too heavy the Master be allowed the next time to coyn it a little to heavy or too light (within the remedy of $\frac{1}{2}$ ^d p^r lw^t) for keeping the recconing eaven.