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Money — they tell us that a penalty is incurred by ithe 57th of George 3d, 

 Chapter 46, page 817, by any person who coins Copper Money, but that per- 

 mission is usually given on the application of parties wishing to circulate it. 



iNot knowing whether Your Lordship is the proper person to make the 

 enquiry of, I am sure you wiill excuse rnie if I am in error in writing to 

 you and will, I trust, direct me to the right quarter, or will give me such 

 information as will lenable my sons either to undertake the execution of the 

 order, or to decline it. 



Apologizing for the present liberty, 



I have the honour to be, My Lord, 



Yr. mo. obt. servant, 



Jos. SCHOLBFIELD 



The Rt. Honorable Lord Glbnelg, etc., etc., etc. 



, No. 2. 



V. Archives, tueries (J, \ ol. 2.'f0—2, p. '313. 



Treasury Chambers, 



20th AuRust, 1837. 

 Sir, 



I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury 

 to request you will state to Lord Glenelg that an application has been 

 addressed to their Lordships by Mr. Scholefield of Birmingham, for permis- 

 sion to execute an order received from the Bank of Montreal in Lower 

 Canada for a coinage of Copper Tokens for circulation in that Province, 

 and as their Lordships find that Lord Glenelg is already in possession of the 

 particulars of this application they request to be favoured with his opinion 

 as to the propriety and expedrenicy of acceding thereto before they give any 

 directions on the subject. 



I am, sir. 



Your obedient servant, 



A. Y. Spearman. 

 James Stephen, Esq., etc. etc., etc. 



No. 4. 



P. 219. 



Treasury Chambers, 



21 Septemiber, 1837. 

 Sir. 



With further reference to the Letter from this Department of 30th ulto. 

 and to your retply thereto, of 12 insL respecting the application of Mr. Schole- 

 field, of Birmingham, for permission to execute an order wihioh he had 

 received from the Bank of Montreal for a coinage of Copper Tokens to be 

 circulated in Lower Canada; I am directed by the Lords Commissioners 

 of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that you will state to Lord Glenelg 

 tbat in the absence of any information on the subject from the Governor of 

 Lower Canada, My Lords must defer giving their sanction for the trans- 

 mission of the Copper Tokens which the Montreal Banking Company has 

 proposed to put into circulation in that Province, and that they have caused 

 a 'Communication to that effect to ibe made to Mr. Scholefield; but My Lords 



