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APPENDIX C. 



Documents Relating to the Copper Coins issued by the Canadian Banks. 



Extracts from Minutes of Directors of the Bank of Montreal. 



Page 123, 9th June, 1837. 



The subject of the Copper Coin was again discussed. The Cashier 

 was directed to import a quantity and obtain concurrence of the other 

 Banks. 



Page 162, 10th Oct., 1837, 



A letter from Albert Furnîss, dated 6th inst., re Copper Coins ordered 

 from England was submitted. Cashier was directed to reply that this 

 Bank would continue the order for one-half the amount first required, 

 even without the assent of other Banks; but upon obtaining the assent 

 of the City and Peoples Banks, the whole £5,000 to be imported by 

 the first spring ships. 



Page 166, 3rd Nov., 1837. 



Steps taken to obtain from the Government a recommendation in 

 favour of the importation. 



Page 264, 14th June, 1839. 



Coin arrived from England, but was of such a very inferior grade 

 that Cashier instructed notary to protest against Mr. Furniss for recov- 

 ery of damages and interest. 



Page 295, 19th Nov., 1839. 



Letter received from Mr. Furniss and also more coin, but of lower 

 grade than former shipment. 



29th April, 1842. 



Government authorize importation of Copper Coin by Bank of 

 Montreal to the extent of £5,000 any time between this and the year 

 1845. 



APPENDIX D. 



No. 1. 



From the Archives of the Court House, Montreal. 



H. Griffin, 166Sii), 15th June, 1839. 



On this 15th day of June in the year of our Lord 1839, we, the under- 

 signed public notaries, duly commissioned and sworn in and for the Province 

 of Lower Canada, residing in the City of Montreal, in the said province, at 

 the special instance and request of the President, Directors and Company 

 of the Bank of Montreal, did go to the Counting house of Albert Furniss, 

 Esq., of the said City of Montreal, merchant, and there 'being and speaking 

 to himself did declare unto him that, whereas the said Bank of Montreal 

 did order from the said Albert Furniss the importation in the year 1838 from 

 England of a large amount in money of Penny and Halfpenny pieces of the 

 description then given, which order was executed at the manufactory in 



