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Statement of the Importations of Copper Tokens from Livbrpooi, for rna Sbrvick op the Province : 



£ atg. s. d. 



Imported in 1823, per Invoice cost G15 6 4 



To pay which remitted Messrs. Smitli & Co., 



] Bill of Exchange for £500 stg., at a premium of 7 J per cent, currency 597 4 4 



1 ditto for £115 6s 4d stg., at a premium of 15 per cent 147 6 8 



Freight, &c., on this importation 11 12 8 



Imported in 1824, per Invoice costs 739 19 3 



1,355 5 7 

 To i>ay which remitted Messrs. Smitli & Co., 



1 Bill of Exchange for £425 stg., at a premium of 15 per cent, currency 543 1 1 



1 ditto for £315 stg., at a premium of 133 per cent 396 7 6 



Freight, &c., on this importation 10 3 G 



1,705 15 9 

 Commissions, 5 per cent 85 5 9 



1,791 1 6 

 Charged in account current for 1823 1,465 5 5 



Balance to be charged in 1825 £325 16 1 



E. E. Mich. Wallace, 



31 Dec, 1825. Treasurer. 



APPENDIX VI. 



COREBSPONDBNCE RELATING TO THE CoiNAQB OF 1832. 

 A. 



Halifax, Nova Scotia, 16 February, 1832. 

 Sir, 



The Province having experienced much inconvenience from tlie want of copper change the Legislature 

 have authorized the importation of eighteen hundred pounds sterling in that coin. 



"We have herewith sent a specimen of those hitherto imported and we will be obliged by your transmitting at 

 your earliest convenience by the way of Liverpool £1,200 in halfpenny and £600 in penny tokens similar to those 

 sent with the exception of the alteration of the year to 1832. 



The weight must not be greater, as from present value there is sufficient inducement to forward them to the 

 United States where they circulate as cents, which we wish to obviate. 



You will have them packed the penny in parcels of 60 each and the halfpenny in parcels of 120 for the con- 

 venience of counting. 



We have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servants, 



Charles W. Wallace, 

 William Lawson, 



James Foreman. 

 Messrs. Swainson & Willis, 



Liverpool. 



B. 



London, 23rd March, 1832. 

 Charles W. Wallace, Esq., 

 Dear Sir, 



I have received your favor of the 19th February, accompanying an order from the Legislature for 

 copper tokens for the use of the Province. I have çiven the necessary instructions and have no doubt but my 

 friend at Birmingham will have the order satisfactorily executed ; he says it will require the renewal of many 

 dies and the old ones of no use. I feel confident he will do his duty well and upon the best terms ; as soon as a 

 ton is ready it shall be sent and the whole forwarded as finished via Liverpool insured. I am sorry to hear such reports 

 as are here spread by some gentlemen home from the General Mines ; they say that Mr. Fairbanks and the 

 directors of the canal have been deceived and that it will be an entire failure; this I hope is not the caBe, but our 



Sec. IL, 1892. 7. 



