Anno Regni Annae Reginae Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, sexto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, anno Dom. 1706, in the sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. Laws, etc. Great Britain. Approx. 13 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 6 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI : 2005-03. N05281 N05281 Evans 6676 Evans 6677 Evans 6678 Evans 6679 Evans 6680 Evans 6681 Evans 6682 APY8590 6676 99036113

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Anno Regni ANNAE REGINAE Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, SEXTO.

At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, Anno Dom. 1706, in the sixth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady ANNE, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.

DIEU ET MON DROIT

LONDON, Printed by John Basket, Printer to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, 1706.

NEW-LONDON, Re-printed by Timothy Green, Printer to the Governour and Company of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut in New-England, 1751.
Anno sexto Annae Reginae.

An Act for Ascertaining the Rates of Forein Coins in Her Majesty's Plantations in America.

WHEREAS for Remedying the Inconveniences which had arisen from the different Rates at which the same Species of Forein Silver Coins did Pass in Her Majesties several Colonies and Plantations in America, Preamble. Her Most Excellent Majesty has thought fit by Her Royal Proclamation, bearing Date the Eighteenth Day of June, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Four, and in the Third Year of Her Reign, to Settle and Ascertain the Currency of Forein Coins in Her said Colonies and Plantations, in the Manner and Words following.

We having had under Our Consideration the different Rates at which the same Species of Forein Coins do pass in Our several Colonies,Forein Coin passing in He • Majesty's Plantations in America. and Plantations in America, and the Inconveniences thereof, by the indirect Practice of Drawing the Money from one Plantation to another; to the great prejudice of the Trade of our Subjects: And being sensible, That the same cannot be otherwise Remedied, than by Reducing of all Forein Coins to the same Current Rate within all Our Dominions in America: And the principal Officers of Our Mint having laid before Us a Table of the Value of the several Forein Coins which usually pass in Payments in Our said Plantations, according to their Weight; and the Assays made of them in Our Mint, thereby shewing the just Proportion which each Coin ought to have to the other.

Which is as followeth, Viz.

Sevill Pieces of Eight, Old Plate, Seventeen-peny Weight Twelve Grains,The several sorts of Forein Coins Stated Four Shillings and Six-pence; Sevill Pieces of Eight, New Plate, Fourteen-peny Weight, Three Shillings Seven-pence One-farthing; Mexico Pieces of Eight, Seventeen-peny Weight Twelve Grains, Four Shillings and Six-pence; Pillar Pieces of Eight, Seventeen-peny Weight Twelve Grains, Four Shillings and Six-pence Three-farthings; Peru Pieces of Eight, Old Plate, Seventeen-peny Weight Twelve Grains, Four Shillings and Five-pence, or thereabouts; Cross Dollars, Eighteen-peny Weight, Four Shillings and Four-pence Three-farthings; Ducatoons of Flanders, Twenty-peny Weight and Twenty One Grains, Five Shillings and Six-pence; Ecu's of France, or Silver Lewis, Seventeen-peny Weight Twelve Grains, Four Shillings and Six-pence; Crusadoes of Portugal, Eleven-peny Weight Four Grains, Two Shillings and Ten-pence One-farthing; Three Gilder Pieces of Holland, Twenty-peny Weight and Seven Grains, Five Shillings and Two-pence One Farthing; Old Rix Dollars of the Empire, Eighteen-peny Weight and Ten Grains, Four Shillings and Six-pence: The Halfs, Quarters, and other Parts in proportion to their Denominations; and Light Pieces in proportion to their Weight.

Time Affixed to the Colonies as Plantations how to Receive or Pay said Forein Coins. We have therefore thought fit for Remedying the said Inconveniences, by the Advice of Our Council, to Publish and Declare, That from, and after the First Day of January next Ensuing the Date hereof, no Sevill, Pillar, or Mexico Pieces of Eight, though of the full Weight of Seventeen-peny Weight, and an Half, shall be Accounted, Received, Taken, or Paid within any of Our said Colonies, or Plantations; as well those under Proprietors, and Charters as under Our Immediate Commission, and Government at above the Rate of Six Shillings per Piece, Current Money, for the Discharge of any Contracts, or Bargains to be made after the said First Day of January next; the Halfs, Quarters, and other lesser Pieces of the Coins, to be Accounted, Received, Taken, or Paid in the same Proportion.

And the Currency of all Pieces of Eight of Peru, Dollars, and other Forein Species of Silver Coin,To be Regulated according to their Fineness and Weight. whether of the same, or baser Alloy, shall, after the said First Day of January next, stand Regulated according to their Weight, and Fineness according, and in proportion to the Rate before Limited, and Set for the Pieces of Eight of Sevill, Pillar and Mexico; So that no Forein Silver Coin of any sort be permitted to exceed the same proportion upon any account whatsoever.

And We do hereby Require and Command all Our Governours, Lieutenant-Governours,A Command to Governors &c. Magistrates, Officers, and all other Our good Subjects, within Our said Colonies and Plantations to Observe and Obey Our Directions herein, as they Tender Our Displeasure.

And whereas notwithstanding the said Proclamation, the same indirect Practices as are therein mentioned, are still Carried on with some of the said Colonies or Plantations, and the Money thereby drawn from one Plantation to another, in Prejudice of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects: wherefore for the better Inforcing the due Execution of Her Majesty's said Proclamation throughout all the said Colonies and Plantations; and for the more Effectual Remedying the said Inconveniences thereby intended to be Remedied.

Be it Enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice, and Consent of the Lords Spiritual, and Temporal, and Commons, in this Present Parliament Assembled, Penalty for accounting, receiving, taking or paying any of the several Species of Forein Silver Coins herein mentioned, at any greater or higher Rate after the First of May, 1709. and by the Authority of the same, That if any Person within any of the said Colonies, or Plantations, as well those under Proprietors, and Charters, as under Her Majesty's immediate Commission, and Government, shall after the First Day of May, which shall be in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred, and Nine, for the Discharge of any Contracts or Bargains to be thereafter made, Account, Receive, Take, or Pay, any of the several Species of Forein Silver Coins mentioned in the before-recited Proclamation, at any greater or higher Rate than at which the same is thereby Regulated, Setled, and Allowed, to be Accounted, Received, Taken, or Paid, every such Person so Accounting, Receiving, Taking, or Paying the same contrary to the Directions therein contained, shall suffer Six Months Imprisonment, without Bail or Mainprize: Any Law, Custom, or Usage in any of the said Colonies, or Plantations to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding: And shall likewise forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds for every such Offence; One moiety thereof to Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors; the other moiety to such Person or Persons as shall Sue for the same, to be Recovered with full Costs of Suit, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Justice within any of the said Plantations, or in any of the Courts of Justice of the Charter, or Proprietary Governments where such Offence shall be committed.

Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby Declared, That nothing in the before recited Proclamation, or in this Act contained, Proviso. shall Extend, or be Construed to Compel any Person to Receive any of the said Species of Forein Silver Coins, at the Respective Rates in the said Proclamation mentioned.

Provided also, and it is hereby further Declared, That nothing in this Act contained, shall Extend, or be Construed to Restrain Her Majesty from Regulating, and Setling the several Rates of the said Species of Forein Silver Coins within any of the said Colonies, or Plantations, in such other Manner, Provided also. and according to such other Rates, and Proportions as Her Majesty by Her Royal Poclamation for that purpose to be Issued, shall from time to time judge proper, and necessary; Or from giving Her Royal Assent to any Law hereafter to be made in any of the said Colonies, or Plantations, for the Setling, and Ascertaining the current Rates of such Coins within the said Colonies, or Plantations; but that such further Regulations may be made, and such Assent given, in as full, and ample manner, to all intents, and purposes as the same might have been done in case this Act had not been made, and no otherwise; Any thing herein before contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Instruction to the Governour, &c. By the Lords Justices, Jo Cant. Wilmington P. Hervy C. P. S. Dorset Grafton Richmond Lenox & Aubigny Bolton.

INSTRUCTION to the Governour and Company of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut in New-England in America; for the better Observation of the Act of the 6th of Queen Anne; For ascertaining the Rates of Forein Coins in America.

Given at Whitehall the 21st Day of August, 1740, In the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign.

Preamble. WHEREAS an Act of Parliament was Passed in the sixth Year of Her Late Majesty Queen ANNAE, Entituled, An Act for Ascertaining the Rates of Forein Coins in Her Majesty's Plantations in America; And whereas Complaints have been made that the said has not been Observed as it ought to have been, in many of His Majesty's Colonies, and Plantations in America, by means whereof many indirect Practices have grown up; and various, and illegal Currences have been introduced in several of the said Colonies, and Plantations, contrary to the true Intent, and Meaning of the said Act, and to the Prejudice of the Trade of His Majesty's Subjects: In Consequence of which Complaints, an Humble Address was Presented the Last Sessions by the House of Commons to His Majesty, That He would be graciously Pleased to Require, and Command the respective Governours of His Colonies, and Plantations in America, Effectually to Observe the said Act of the sixth of Queen ANNE.

The Gov. & Company Requir'd to take effectual care the aforesaid Act be Observed. It is therefore His Majesty's Royal Will, and Pleasure, and you are hereby strictly Required, and Commanded to take the most Effectual Care for the future that the said Act be Punctually, and Bonà Fidè Observed and put in Execution, according to the true Intent, and Meaning thereof.

And to the End that His Majesty's Commands herein may be fully made Known to all His Subjects within your Government,And to publish this Instruction in the best maner to answer the King's Intention herein. and that none of them may pretend Ignorance thereof;

You are hereby further Required, and Commanded, to Publish this Instruction in such Manner as may best answer His Majesty's Gracious Intentions herein signified.

J. C. W. P. D. B. H. C. P. S.