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Liverpool of Messrs. Scholefield & Son, to the entire satisfaction of the said 

 President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Montreal, and that, where- 

 as, in consequence, the said Bank of Montreal, by and throug-h their Cashier, 

 by letter bearing date the 26 day of Nov. last past, did give ^unto the said 

 Albert Furniss another order for a further quantity of penny pieces and 

 halfpenny pieces, to wdt, 120,000 penny pieces and 240,000 halfpenny pieces, 

 with such alteration in the stamp or die of the said Coin from that of the 

 previous importation as in the said letter particularly set forth, with the 

 express direction that the said Importation of Copper Coin should be procured 

 from the said house of Scholefield & Son, at Liverpool aforesaid, to be similar 

 in respect to weight and fineness of material to the coin that had been fur- 

 nished 'by that house the previous spring, and by the same letter it was 

 further stated that to meet the view of the said Scholefield & Son that the 

 said Cashier would direct the agents of the said ibank to pay for the 'said 

 coins on delivery of the bill of lading and invoice thereof with insurance; 

 and that whereas the said Albert Furniss did receive the said order and did 

 promise and undertake to procure the execution thereof, but disregarding 

 the terms of the said order did cause the whole of the said quantity of 

 Copper Coins to be procured in England aforesaid from some manufactory 

 other than that of the said Soholefleld & Son, and which, on being shipped 

 at Liverpool aforesaid, was paid for in good faith 'by the agents of the said 

 bank in Liverpool aforesaid, and that whereas the said quantity of Coins 

 has been received in Montreal at the banking house of this institution, and 

 on opening the casks containing the said coins are discovered to be of base 

 material, different in all respects in the manufacture, coinage and workm'an- 

 ship from those manufactured the previous season by the said Scholefield & 

 Son, and are, in fact, utterly unworthy of issue and disreputable to the 

 manufactory where the same was made, and we did also declare to the said 

 Albert Furniss that in consequence of the premesis aforesaid the said Bank 

 of Montreal could not issue the said coins, that the whole thereof would be 

 held to his future order and be at his entire risk, charge and expense, and 

 that the said Bank of Montreal should and would hold him, the said Albert 

 Furniss, responsible and liable for all costs, losses, changes, damages and 

 interests, exchanges, re-exchanges, hurts and injuries suffered and to be 

 suffered by the said Bank of Montreal, for and by reason and upon account 

 of the said coin having been made and shipped different to and contrary to 

 the order and express direction of the said Bank of Montreal, through their 

 said Cashier, and which he, the said Albert Furniss, did promise and to 

 execute and perform. And at- the same time we did direct that inasmuch as 

 the said coins were ordered and manufactured to and for the special issue 

 of the said Bank of Montreal, that none of the said coins should be by him 

 issued or suffered to be issued or put into circulation which would prove to 

 the discredit of the said institution against which and for all costs, losses, 

 charges, damages and interests, exchanges, re-exchanges, hurts and injuries 

 suffered and accrued, and that can, shall or may be hereafter suffered and 

 accrued to and by the said Bank of Montreal for, by reason and on account 

 of all and every the ipremesis aforesaid, and for which the said Bank can, 

 m'ay or ought to protest, we, the said notaries, at the instance and request 

 aforesaid do hereby formally protest against the said Albert Furniss, and 

 against all and every other persO'n and persons whomsoever it doth, shall 



