2SO ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Oiven under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Kingston, in Canada, this 

 Sixteentli day of April, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred 

 and Forty-two, and in the fifth year of Her Majesty's Reign. 

 By His Excellency's command, 



(Signed), D. Daly, 



Secretary. 

 (Pencil notation).— O. C. 23 March, 1842-JState Book A, p. 329. 



No. 8. 

 579. No. 710. 



licnj.'n Holmes, Esq., M.P.F., Cashier Bank of Montreal. 



21 April, '42. 

 Sir, 



I have the honour herewith to enclose to you by command of His Excel- 

 lency the G-overnor-Greneral, a Permission under the Privy Seal of the 

 Province of Canada, to the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of 

 Montreal to import or manufacture Copper Coin as requested in your cojn- 

 munication of the 12th ult., the receipt of which you will have the goodness 

 to acknowledsre. 



I have, etc. 



No. 9. 



[Copy.] 



Importation of Copper Coins Duty Free. 



Report of a Committee of the Executive Council dated 12th November, 

 1842. Apprioved by His Excellency The Governor-General on the 25 Novem- 

 ber, 1842. 



The Committee of Council are respectfully of opinion that the Insipector 

 General's decision to admît the Copper Coins, Mentioned in the Collector of 

 Customs letter of the 7 November, 1842, free of duty was Correct, and they 

 recommend the adoption of the following Order. 



It is Ordered by His Excellency the Governor-General, by and with the 

 advice of the Executive Council, that the Copper Coins imported by the 

 Montreal Bank under an arrangement with the Executive Government be 

 admitted free of duty. 



Certified, 



(Signed), E. Parent, 



C. E. O. 



To The Inspector General, etc., etc., etc. 



A copy transmitted to the Collector of Customs, Montreal, on 26 Nov., 

 1842. 



J. C. 

 No. 10. 



Bank of iviontreal. 



Montreal, 25 January, 1844. 

 Sir, 



I have the honour to inform you that under the authority of the order- 



in-Councdl transmitted in your letter dated Kingston, 21 April, 1842, of which 



order I' beg leave to enclose a Copy, there was imported by the Bank of 



Montreal a portion only of the Copper Coin therein sanctioned. 



