248 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



No. 6. 

 Province of Canada. 



His Excellency, etc. — 



To The President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Montreal. 



GREETINC3 — 



TFAereas,— Tlhie President, Directors and Cotmipany of the Bank of Montreal, 

 have made application for ipenmiisision to innport into the Province, or to 

 manufacture therein, copper coins under the authority of an aot of the 

 Legislature of the said Province passed in the session held In the fourth 

 and fifth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, "An aot to prevent the 

 " fraudulent manufacture, importation, or circulation of spurious Copper and 

 " Brass Coin." — 



Now Know Ye,— 'That I, the said Sir Charles Bagot, having taken the 

 said application into consideration, by virtue of the power in me vested by 

 the said act, have given and granted, and do hereby give and grant by and 

 with the advice and consent of Her Majesty's Executive Council for the 

 said Province, authority and permission to the President, Directors and Com- 

 pany of the Dank of Montreal aforesaid to import into the said Province 

 or to manufacture therein any amount of Copper Coin or tokens of the 

 description of pennies and halfpennies, not exceeding in nominal value the 

 sum of Five Thousand Pounds current money of this Province, such coin 

 or tokens to be equal in purity, weight and quality to five-sixths at the least 

 of the British penny or halfpenny lawfully current in tihe United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland. Provided always that the said Coin or Tokens 

 shall be stam^ped with the respective noiminal value thereof and /with the 

 name of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Montreal 

 aforesaid, and shall be payable and redeemable on demand at the said Bank 

 of iMontreal, in conformity in all respects with the provisions dî the said 

 act. And provided also that the President, Directors and Company of the 

 Bank of Montreal aforesaid shall with all reasonable diligence, furnish to 

 the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor or person administering the Government 

 of the said Province for the time being an account of the expenses incurred in 

 and about the im'portation or manufacture of the said coins or tokens, in 

 order that the same may be laid before the Legislature of the said Province. 

 And I do hereby declare that the permission of these presents given and 

 granted shall ibecome void and of no effect by the violation or non-observance 

 of any of the conditions or 'provisions herein contained, but in case of the 

 due observance and fulfilment thereof shall continue and be in force until 

 the first day of January, 1845, and no longer. 



Given, etc., 

 This is my draught. 



Kingston, 8th April, 1842. 



(Signed), Chas. D. Day, 



Sol. Genl. 

 Endorsed. 



Solicitor-iGeneral's draft of Permission to the President, Directors and 

 Company of the Bank of Montreal to import and manufacture Copper Coin. 



