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Pending the question relative to the change of Currency, the Committee 

 cannot recommend that the permission requested be granted. 



Certified. 



(Signed), W. H. Lee, 



To the Honorable the Provincial Secretary, etc., etc., etc. 



No. 40. 



1607 to 2241 p. 668. 



Quebec, 6 Oct., 1852. 

 C. Gethings, Esq., Cashier Quebec Bank, Quebec. 

 Sir, 



The Governor-General ihad under consideration in Council your letter of 

 the 22 ult., enclosing an account of the expenses incurred in manufacturing 

 and impor.ting into Quebec, copper coins to the value of £2,000, as authorized 

 by M. Sec. Morin's letter to M. Freer of the 21 of November last, and stating 

 that owing to some misunderstanding the amount imported was £2,000 cur- 

 rency instead of sterling as authorized, and requesting an extension of the 

 period allowed, to enable the Bank to import the balance next season, together 

 with an additional amount of £1,000 sterling. I am to inform you in reply 

 that pending the question relative to the change of currency, His Excellency 

 is not advised to grant the permisision which you solicit. 



I have, etc., 



E. P. 

 No. 41. 



The Honorable A. TV. Marin, Secretary of Canada, Quebec. 



Office op the Bank of Upper Canada, 



Quebec, 3 November, 1851. 

 Sir, 



I have the honour to refer you to the letter of License granted to this 

 Bank by His Excellency the Governor-General-in-Council, on the 23 of Febru- 

 ary, 1850, for the issue of £5,000 Stg. in Copper Tokens — as authorized by 

 the Act 4 and 5 Vic, Cap. 17 — and beg leave to inform you, that in the course 

 of the present year the -whole of that amount has been imported from the 

 Royal Mint in London and has been put into circulation in this Province. I 

 have further the honour to inform you, that this supply has not been found 

 sufficient for the wants of the country, there still existing a great scarcity 

 of Copper Coins in most parts of the Province. Under these circumiStances, 

 I am directed by the Board humbly to solicit another Letter of License to 

 import and issue the like sum of Five thousand pounds sterling in Copper 

 Bank Tokens— of one penny and one halfpenny each, according to the restric- 

 tions and conditions of the said Act, and that the sa,me may be in force 

 for one year. ^ 



It is intended, that should the above request be granted, the Bank will 

 apply for leave to have the coinage executed at the Royal Mint in London, 

 from the same dies as before, and I most respectfully request that the same 

 may be recommended and allowed. 



I have the honour to be, sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed), Thos. G. Ridout, 



Cashier. 



