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to direct the Reiceiver-General to pay the same to the Road Treasurer in 

 small silver Coins, viz.: Three-penmj-half penny, seven-pence-halfpenny land one 

 shilling and three-pence pieces, to enable the Road Treasurer therewith to pay 

 the Pay Lists of public Works of the Surveyor of Higihways of this City. 



iCertified, 

 (Sigrned), Perrault & Scott. 



Clerk of the Peace and of the Sessions of the Peace. 



No. 3. 



To His Excellency The Earl of Gosford, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief 

 of the Frovince of Lower Canada, etc., etc., etc. 

 .Report of a Comimittee of the Executive Council, Present: The Honorable 

 Mr. Smith, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Cochran, on Your Excellency's Reference 

 to la Letter from the Clerks of the Peace with two Resolutions passed by 

 the Magistrateis resipecting the Coin in circulation. 

 Approved, 



(Signed), Gosford. 



Mat it please Your Excellency, 



The Committee have taken into consideration your Excellency's Reference 

 from the Clerks of the Peace, with two Resolutions assented to in General 

 Special Sessions of the Peace suibmitting to your Excellency the expediency 

 of adopting imeasures of obtaining from the United Kingdom a supply of 

 good lOopper Coin for circulation lin this Province, and also of directing that 

 the amount of Assessiments on the public Buildings in Quebec for this Year, 

 be paid .when ascertained in small Silver Coin. The Committee are of opinion 

 that for the relief of the present difficulties in money circulation, especially 

 with respect to Capper Coin, it would be highly desirable that His Majesty's 

 Government be solicited to cause a supply of the legal Copper Coin of the 

 Realm consisting of pence and halfpence to the amount of £2,000 to be 

 sent out to this Country, through the Treasury Department to be lodged 

 with the Receiver-iGeneral and paid out in discharge of Warrants from 

 time to time. 



The Committee 'beg Leave upon this head to refer to a Report made by a 

 special Committee of the Legislative Council in 1833, followed up by an 

 address to the then Governor-in-Chief for the purpose of obtaining a supply 

 of Copper Coin. With respect to the other ipoint submitted by the Magistrates 

 The Committee are also of opinion that it would be desirable that the amount 

 of the assessmients on the Pulblic Buildings for the current year should, 

 when ascertained, be paid by the Receiver-iGenenal in such small Silver Coin 

 of the denomination mentioned by the Magistrates, as he may have in his 

 possession. 



All of fwhich is respectfully submitted to your Excellency's Wisdom. 

 By order, 



(Signed), Wm. Smith, 



Chairman. 

 Council Chambers, 



29th June, 1837. 



