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Act just passed, Dollars and Bank Tokens are authorized to pass 
and circulate until the 5th of July next, and from that period till 
the 5th of April next year (viz, 1819) to be tendered and 
received in Payment of any Taxes, Rates or Duties under the 
management of the Commissioners of the Customs, Excise or 
Stamps,—or of any Postage or in the purchase of any Stamped 
_ Paper, or in Payment of Rent, Parochial or Public Rate, or for 
the purpose of being transmitted to the Bank. You will therefore 
_ accordingly receive such Dollars or Bank Tokens as may be 
offered to you, and transmit them to this Office, in the manner 
7 pointed out in my letter of the 12th February last. 
I am, your assured friend, 
FRANCIS FEELING, 
Secretary.” 
I have endeavoured as far as possible, to obtain my references 
from local sources, and the papers so often referred to are local, 
unless specially mentioned, and I tender my thanks to the 
Editors of the local press, through whose courtesy I have been 
enabled to obtain access to their columns. 
In preparing this paper for publication, with pleasure I acknow- 
ledge my indebtedness to Mr. W. J. Davis, of Birmingham, whose 
recently issued work (March 25th, 1904) on the “ Nineteenth 
Century Token Coinage,” embodying the results of a long period 
of careful research, is the standard authority on‘my subject. 
i YoTE.—The references to DAVIS. SOM? are taken from ‘ Nine- 
teenth Century Token Coinage,” by W. J. Davis. 
