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circumstances, we may know what the whole Dominion owes to the people of Nova Scotia 

 for permanence and plenty in the currency we now enjoy. 



APPENDIX I. 



1758.— 32 George II, Chap. xx. 



An Act for Pcnishing Criminal Offenders. 



VIII.— And be it further enacted tliat every person duly convicted at the Court of General Gaol delivery or 



quarter sessions, of counterfeiting or impairing, diminishing or umbasing any foreign coins current in the province 



by washing, clipping, rounding, filing, or scaling of the same or of uttering any counterfeit or impaired coin, 



knowing the same to be impaired, shall be set on the pillory by the space of one whole hour and one of the ears 



of the oflFender shall be nailed thereto, and such offender shall also be publickly whipped through the streets of 



the town where such oflence shall be committed and shall pay all charges of the prosecution. 



APPENDIX II. 

 1787.— 28 George III, Chap. ix. 

 An Act to prevent the circulation of base and counterfeit halfpence and other copper coin and to establish the 

 current value of English crowns, half crowns and shillings in the Province. 



Whereas, great quantities of base metal under the denomination of half pence have been imported in this 

 Province and are daily used in payment to the injury of merchants and others, for remedy whereof: 



I. Be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor in council and house of assembly, that from and after the 

 publication of this Act, no person or persons whatsoever shall import, vend or knowingly or wittingly offer in 

 payment or circulate any half pence or other copper coin other than Tower half pence or such copper coin as may 

 and do legally pass current in Great Britain and Ireland, on pain of forfeiting such base halfpence and coin and 

 paying for the use of the poor of the town where such offence shall be committed a sum not exceeding double the 

 amount or nominal value of such base half pence and copper coin so imported, vended, offered in payment or 

 circulated as aforesaid, to be recovered on information before any two of His Majesty's justices of the peace within 

 the town or county where such offence shall be committed. 



II. And be it further enacted that in future each and every English crown shall pass current as five shillings 

 and sixpence, and every such half crown at two shillings and nine pence, and every such shilling at thirteen 

 pence, and so in proportion for lesser divisions of such coin. 



APPENDIX III. 

 1812. 



An Act to empower the Lieutenant-Governor, or commander in chief for the time being, to appoint commis- 

 sioners to issue Treasury notes. 



Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, council and assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, or commander-in-chief for the time being, when, and as soon as he may deem necessary, to 

 appoint three fit and proper persons as commissioners to issue Treasury notes to the amount of twelve thousand 

 pounds as follows, viz : 



Fifty notes of fifty pounds each, one hundred notes of twenty pounds each ; two himdred notes of twelve 

 pounds ten shillings each; four hundred notes of five pounds each; four hundred notes of two pounds ten shil- 

 lings each ; and two thousand notes of twenty shillings each ; making in the whole twelve thousand pounds, 

 which Treasury notes shall bear lawful interest from the day they shall be issued in payment from the Treasury, 

 and shall be indented and impressed with the words " Nova Scotia," signed by the Treasurer of the Province and 

 countersigned by the said commissioneis and containing the following figures and words, to wit: 



No. Province of Nova Scotia, 



£, Treasurer's Office. 



By a law of this Province, the bearer of this note is entitled to 

 receive at the Treasury the sum of 



with interest, at the rate of six per cent, per annum from the day 

 it is issued by the Treasurer. 



Dated at Halifax, the day of 



in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 



All which notes shall be of the same date and when so completed and signed, be delivered to the Treasurer by 



Sec. II., 1892. 6. 



