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In the event of your being unable to undertake this order be pleased to transfer its execution to such 



person as you or the Honorable Mr. Howe, if in London, may select. 



I have, &c., 



Wu. Keating, 



Deputy-Secretary. 

 Messrs. Baring Bros. & Co., 



London. 



APPENDIX IX. 



Extracts from Statutes op Dominion of Canada. 



1868.— 31 Victoria. 



An Act respecting the currency. 



Whereas it is expedient to have one currency for the whole Dominion of Canada: Therefore, Her Majesty, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : 



IL The foregoing sections of this Act are as regards the Province of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick 

 declaratory of the law in force in these Provinces before and at the time of the passing of this Act; — and as 

 regards the Province of Nova Scotia, they shall come into force and take effect in that province, upon, from and 

 after (he day to be appointed for that purpose by Proclamation by the Governor; — Provided always, that any 

 sum of money payable on and after the day last aforesaid, under any act or law of the Province of Nova Scotia 

 passed before the said day, under any bill, note or instrument, contract or agreement made before the said day, 

 if from the terms used or the date or place of making, it is to be presumed that some other currency than that 

 hereby established was intended, shall, on or after the paid day, be payable by a sum in the currency of 

 Canada, of equal value with that by which it would have been payable in any other currency if this Act had 

 not been passed. 



12. And for the prevention of doubts be it enacted that all sums mentioned in dollars and cents in the 

 Imperial Act known as the British North America Act, 1867, and all Acts of the Parliament of Canada passed 

 in the present or in any future session, shall unless it be othervvise expressed, be understood as well with 

 respect to the Province of Nova Scotia as to the otber Provinces composing the Dominion of Canada, to be the 

 currency of Canada as hereby established, subject only to the following exception, that is to say :— the duties, 

 penalties and other sums of money mentioned in the Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed in the present 

 session, and intituled: An Act respecting the Inland Revenue, shall as regards all such duties, penalties or sums 

 of money accrued, incurred or payable in the Province of Nova Scotia, before the day of 1S68, 

 be understood to be sums of the then currency of that Province, but as regards all such dutie.«, penalties or sums 

 of money accrued, incurred or payable on or after the t^aid day, they shall be understood to be sums of the 

 currency of Canada, as hereby established. 



13. The seventh section of the Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in the present session and intituled : 

 An Act to impose Duties on Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange, shall be repealed as regards Promissory 

 Notes, Drafts and Bills of Exchange made, drawn or accepted in Nova Scotia upon or after the said day 

 of 1868, and the amount on which duty is payable under the said Act upon such Promissor.y Notes, 

 Drafts or Bills of Exchange shall be reckoned in the currency of Canada as hereby established, as shall also 

 any penalty incurred under the said Act in Nova Scotia on and after the said day. 



16. The first, second, sixth and seventh sections of chapter eighty of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 

 third series, and so much of any other parts of that chapter or of any other Act or law of the said Province as 

 may be inconsistent with this Act, shall be repealed on and after the day to be appointed by Proclamation 

 under the eleventh section ; but nothing in this section shall alter or impair the effect of the Proviso to section 

 eleven of this Act. 



18. Provided, that inasmuch as there was held in Paris, in the year 1867, an International Monetary Conference 

 with a view to promote a uniform currency among the nations at which the United Kingdom and the other 

 principal nations of Europe and the United States of America, were represented by duly accredited delegates, 

 and at which the great advantages of such uniform currency were demonstrated and a basis of such currency 

 was agreed upon by the great majority of the delegates, and there is now pending before the Congress of the 

 United States a Bill founded on the reports and resolutions of said Conference, and by which it is declared that, 

 with a view to promote a uniform currency among the nations, the weight of the gold coin of five dollars, or 

 half Eagle, of the United States shall be one hundred and twenty-four and nine-twentieths troy grains, and the 

 fineness thereof shall be nine-tenths, so that it shall agree with a French coin of twenty-five francs, of like 

 weight and fineness; and whereas, that it is highly desirable to provide that the currency of Canada shall be 

 in accordance with the basis agreed upon by the said Conference and shall be (as it now is except in the 

 Province of Nova Scotia) of the same value as the metallic currency of the United States: Therefore, it is enacted, 



