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have to request that Lord Glenelg will call upon the Governor of Lower 

 Canada for an immediate report upon the proposition of the Montreal Bank- 

 ing Company in order that this Board may toe apprized whether any objec- 

 tion exists to a compliance with MJr. Scholefield's application. 

 I am, sir, 

 « Your obedient servant, 



A. Y. Spearman. 

 Jas. Stephen, Esq., etc., etc., etc. 



No. 5. 

 Series Q, Vol. 2Jt2a, p. 3U8. 



The Earl of Gosford. 

 No. 272. 



Downing Street, 



28 September, 1837. 



My Lord. 



I have the honour to transmit to you the copy of an application which 

 I 'have received from Mr. iSoholefield, of Birmingham, for permission to 

 execute an lordex which he had received from the Bank of Montreal for a 

 Coinage of Copper Tokens to be circulated in Lower Canada. The subject 

 belonging strictly to the cognisance of the Lords of the Treasury, Mr. 

 Scholefleid was referred to that Board. Their Lordslhips have informed him, 

 that in the absence of any informatiom on the subject from you they have 

 declined to give their sanction to the transmission of these tokens to Lower 

 Canada, but their Lordships have requested me to call on you, for an 

 Immediate report on the proposition of the Bank of Montreal in order tliat 

 their Lordships may be apprised (Whether any objection exists to a com- 

 pliance with Mr. Scholefield's application. I have, therefore, to request that 

 you will furnish me with the desired Report. 



I have, etc. 



GliBNElL.a. 

 No. 6. 



ISeries Q, Vol. 239—1, p. 109. 

 (No. 122.) 



, Castle of St. Lewis, 



Quebec, 28th November, 1837. 

 Mt Lord. 



"With reference to your Dispatch of the 28th September last. No. 272, 

 enclosing an application from Mr. Scholefleid, of Birmdngham, on behalf 

 of the Montreal Bank for permission to execute an order for coining copper 

 tokens to be circulated in this Province, and requesting information from 

 me on the proposition of the Bank. 



I have the honour to acquaint you that having laid the matter before the 

 Executive Council they have furnished me with a report on the subject, 

 in which I concur, setting forth the great inconvenience arising from the 

 want of a small and sound circulating medium to replace the base copper- 

 coin at present in use, and recomme.nding that the tokens to be coined be 



