ANNALS OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN CURRENCY. 45 



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Halifax, 15th October, 1823. 

 Messrs. Smith, Forsyth tt Co. 

 Gentlemen, 



I have been duly favored with your letters of 21st August and 3rd September. I am sorry to observe, 

 from tbe contents of the last, that there is little probiibility of my receiving the copper coinage this season, which 

 is a great disappointment. I have to request that you may send me the invoice of what has been ordered by the 

 first packet that I may be enabled to judge w hether it will be advisable to order a further supply of the same 

 quality. 



I am with esteem, Gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant, 



Liverpool packet. Mich. Wallace. 



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Minute op Cotjxcil, 29th November, 1823. 



The Treasurer of the Province reported to His Excellency and the council that under the authority of a 

 resolution of the General Assembly during its last session he had ordered and received from England a quantity 

 of copper halfpenny tokens for the accommodation of the Province, amounting in value to about eight hundred 

 and tliirty-five pounds, which are now ready to be issued, and he requested to know the pleasure of liis Excellency 

 and the council w-hether he should order a further supply of tokens conformably to the aforesaid resolution, the 

 present importation having been made merel}' as a sample for approbation. 



Thereupon it was ordered that the Treasurer do direct a further supply of copper halfpenny tokens be im- 

 ported in conformity with said resolution. 



Ordered that no copper halfpenny tol^en or copper halfpence of any description be received or taken in pay- 

 ment at any of tlie public offices witliin the Province except the said copper halfpenny tokens imported by the 

 Treasurer under authority of the resolution of the General Assembly. 



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Halh^ax, 15th December, 1823. 

 Messrs. Smith, Forsyth & Co., 



Gentlemen, 



Your letters by the October mail and the brig Lord Exmouth covering invoice and bill of lading of 

 the copper tokens I ordered for the seivice of the Province, were duly received, and ihe thirteen casks of tokens 

 safely landed here a few weeks ago. So far as I have yet examined the contents of the barrels they are found to be 

 correct in quantity and the execution of the pieces approved of; altho' they are four or five grains heavier than I 

 wished them to be, but that may be owing to my not being more explicit in the order I sent. 



I am sorry to observe by your letters that the price of copper had advanced after my order was completed ; 

 but, if it has fallen again to the former price or under, by the time this reaches you, I have now to request that you 

 will cause to be prepared and sent out by the very first vessel in the spring four tons of penny pieces of the same 

 impressions as the halfpenny tokens now received, (altering the year) to be put up in paper parcels to contain 

 fiO pieces in each, conformable as nearly as may be, to the size of the British penny enclosed herein as a pattern ; 

 and let the barrels they are put into have one strong iron hoop on each end besides strong wooden hoops. The 

 weight of each penny token not to exceed twelve pennyweight. 



No government bills are to be procured at present, otherwise I should now remit the balance of your account 

 and a further sum towards paying for the present order, however I hope to procure some at the end of the month 

 or early in .lanuary. 



Should I through any channel obtain information of the fall in copper, an additional order will be transmitted 

 for more halfpenny tokens, since our present supply is found to be very far short of the wants of the Province, 

 there being no silver coin of any denomination left in the country. 



I remain. Gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant. 

 Per brig Adelphi. Mich. Wallace. 



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Halifax, 10th .January, 1824. 

 Messrs. Smith, Forsyth & Co., 

 Gentlemen, ' 



The foregoing is a duplicate of my letter to you by the Brig Adelphi, which vessel sailed from La 

 Have, as I am informed, about the 30th ult., and I hope this will reach you soon after her arrival. 



