266 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



ÈJndorsed. 



Memo.— A copy of the Order-in-Council within has been furnished from 

 the Colonial Office to the Governor-General's Secretary, with a .view to the 

 necessary despatch being written. Col. Brown says that the matter will be 

 at once attended to. 



E. A. Meredith. 

 November 16, '51. 



No. 44. 



Bank of Upper Canada, 



Toronto, 31 March, 1S53. 

 Sir, 



In consequence of various delays made at the Royal Mint in London in 

 the coinage of the £5,000 of Copper Tokens authorized to be imported by 

 this Bank under authority of His Excellency the Governor-Oeneral's License 

 of the 4 November, 1851, we have only up to the present time received £1,500 

 of that amount, the reason alleged being the great pressure on the mint for 

 the gold and silver 'coinage of the Kingdom, until at length the Master of 

 the Mint informed our agents, Mess. Glyn & Co., that he was unable to 

 execute the order. Under these circumstances the Bank directed other parties 

 to be employed to complete the coinage — and Mess. Glyn & Co. having applied 

 to the Lords of the Treasury for leave to withdraw the Dies and metal from 

 the mint received in reply a letter from Sir C. C. Trevelyan, dated 9 inst., 

 a copy of which is herein enclosed — ^granting such leave, but at the same time 

 intimating that as the License of the Governor-General of Canada expired 

 on the 4 Novemiber, 1852, the coinage cannot be proceeded in until a fresh 

 License shall be obtained. I have, therefore, mo^st respectfully to request 

 that the License of the 4 of Novemiber, 1851, be extended to the 4 day of 

 November, 1853, within which time, I hope, that the balance authorized may 

 be coined and imported into this Province. 



I have the honour to be, sir. 



Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed), Thos. G. Ridout, 



Cashier. 



No. 45. 



Copy of a Letter from Sir C. C. Trevelyan, relative to License for Copper 

 Coinage. 



Treasury Chambers, 



• 9 March, 1853. 



Gentlemen, 



I am commanded iby the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury 

 to acquaint you in reply to your letter of the 25 ult., that their Lordships 

 see no objection to the token coins required for the Bank of Upper Canada, 

 which, from the existing pressure upon the Royal Mint cannot be struck in 

 that Establishment, being executed by other parties, and that my Lords will 

 be prepared to authorize the Master of the Mint to deliver to you, or your 

 agents, the several Dies bearing the impress of bhe Canadian tokens on con- 

 dition of their restoration to the Mint when the coinage is completed, so as 

 to secure the parties to whom they may be intrusted from the penalties, for 

 having in possession Dies for coining without lawful authority under the 

 Act 2 Williiam 4, Cap. 34, Sec. 10. 



