20 Decimal Scales of Money proposed. 



" Mr. Farey has little wish to go further at present, (or VCTJ 

 little)tlian offering (his plan and t/ie four new Coins, to the Public^ 

 for their acceptance and adoption, reserving further proceedings 

 thereon, until a complete decimal scale of Measnres, and Weights 

 also is matured, and in action ; and therefore, it would, he sug- 

 gests, be proper to enact, 



'• 1st. That no persons should be entitled to demand any of 

 the new decimal Coins, instead of the present legal ones, if sucli 

 are tendered. 



" 2d. That a Pound-piece, might legally be tendered and given 

 in payment, instead or in lieu of 20 shillings. 



" 3d. Tha.t a.Tenth-piece might be tendered and given instead 

 of Two Shillings, or of 4 Six-penccs, or of 24 Pence, &c. 



" 4th. That a single Hundred- piece might be given in lieu of 

 Twopence-halfpenny, or 10 Farthings; two of such for five- 

 pence, or 20 Farthings; three of such and a one Thousandth-piece 

 for sevenpence-halfpenny, or 6 pence and 3 halfpence; four of 

 such and a one Thousandth-piece for Tenpence, or 6 pence and 

 4 pence ; and beyond which number of four Hundredth-pieces, 

 in any one payment, no person should be compellable to take 

 them, instead of the present Coins. 



" 5th. That a single Thousandth-piece might be given in lieu of 

 a Farthing, two of such for a half-penny, three of such for three 

 Farthings, and so on, to ten of such TJiousandth-pieces (which 

 together are equivalent to Twopence-halfpenny, within less than 

 the half a farthing), beyond which number of ten Thousandth- 

 pieces, no person should be compellable to take them, instead of 

 the present Coins. 



" Mr. Farey begs further to remark_, that his proposal) as 

 above, has no dependance on the questions, as to how great a 

 v.eiuht of Gold, of Silver, or of Copper, or how fine, should be 

 put into the four new Coins, respectively; as he assumes, that 

 the Pound will nominally and legally, be equal to 20 shillings, 

 240 pence, and 960 Farthings respectively ; and the new Coin, 

 exact decimations of each other. 



" He cannot avoid expressing a hope, that no propositions 

 will be listened to, for destroijing all our present Coins and the 

 Pound sterling with them, in favour of exact aliqriot parts of a 

 Troy pound of Gold, or of Silver, or the like ; much less, the 

 .still more improper proposal of some, for destroying all these, 

 except the Farthing, in order from this very trifling unit, rather 

 than the Pound Sterling, to raise n decimal scale of Monies, 

 which in the ordinary transactions of business, would from the 

 greatness of the numbers, be intolerable, and how much more so 

 in the Public accounts ?" 



" SiK, 



