256 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



No. 23. 

 1874 to 1781. 

 B. Hottnes, Esq., Cashier Bank of Montreal. 



5 August, '45. 



Sir, 



With reference to your letter of the 14 of June last, I have received the 

 commands of the Governor- General to transmit to you the accompanying 

 Instrument authorising the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of 

 Montreal to import the residue of the Copper Coin contemplated by the Bank 

 under the provisions of the Act 4 ajid 5 Vict., Cap. 17, and upon which Instru- 

 ment the usual fee of £3 5s. Od. currency, is payable to this Department. 



I am to take this occasion through you to call the attention of the 

 President and Directors to the requirements of the enclosed, as also of the 

 former instrument of the same character in reference to the Statement of the 

 expenses Incurred in the importation and manufacture of the Coin authorised 

 by them to be imported, and to request that the same may be furnished in 

 time for the next meeting of the Prov. Legislature. 



I have, etc. 



-No. 24. 



Bank op MontreaLi, 



9 August, 1845. 

 Sir, 



I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 5 instant, trans- 

 mitting an Instrument under the hand and seal of His Excellency the Gov- 

 ernor-General, authorizing the Bank to im^port Coipper Ooin, upon Which you 

 state the usual fee to be £3 5s., which sum I be-g leave herewith to enclose 

 in liquidation of said claim. 



For the information of His Excellency I beg to transmit herewith a state- 

 ment of the several importations effected under the provisions of the Act 

 4 and 5 Vic, Cap. 17. 



I have the honour to be, sir 



Tour obedient servant, 



(Signed), Benj. Holmes, 



Cashier. 

 The Hon. D. Daly, Provincial Secretary, etc., etc. 



No. 25. 



On 10 June, 1837, The Bank of Montreal, with the view of obtaining for 

 this Colony a sound copper currency, transmitted through Albert Purniss, 

 Esquire, of this city, an order to Great Britain for the manufacturing of 

 copiper coin on the following terms: — 



" It has been determined by the Board of Directors of this Institution 

 to obtain an amount of copper coin equivalent to £5,000 Halifax currency, 

 reckoning 120,000 pennies and 240,000 half-'pennies to the £1,000, the weight 

 and quality of the Copper, as also the size, thickness and fashion of the 

 pieces, that is to say, the strong impression and raised edges to be similar 

 to the British penny and half-penny issued from the Imperial mint in 1831." 



