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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080614.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>Draught of an</HI> ACT <HI>concerning the</HI> Mint.</HEAD>
<P>OUR Soveraign Lord Con&s;idering, That by the Act of Parliament 1686, Intituled Act anent an humble Offer to His Maje&s;ty for an Impo&s;ition upon certain Commodities for defraying the Expence of a free Coinage, and other Matters relating to the Mint: The for|&s;aid Expence of a free Coinage, and &s;everal Matters relating to the Mint were indeed &s;ettled, but neither &s;o perfectly nor &s;o fully as experience hath &s;ince di&s;covered; But that there is &s;till need and place for a farder Regulation. Doth therefore with Advice and Con&s;ent of the E&s;tates of Parliament, Statute and Ordain, that notwith&s;tanding it be Recommended by the &s;aid Act to the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, to try by &s;ome of their Number every Journal of Coyne by it&s;elf dictinctly, and that twice every year. <HI>viz.</HI> In the moneth of <HI>July</HI> and <HI>December</HI> yearly: yet &s;eeing the for&s;aid di&s;tinct tryal of every Journal hath been found both a Tedious and Superfluous Labour, and is not practi&s;ed any where el&s;e; It &s;hal be Lei&s;ome for the &s;aids Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council to make the &s;aid Tryal by &s;uch of their Number as they &s;hal think fit, not of every Journal of Coyne by it&s;elf di&s;tinctly; but by taking and mak|ing Tryal of any one or more &s;ingle Journals as they &s;hal think fit: And then to cau&s;e Melt down in one Ma&s;&s;e or Lignat the re&s;t of the Journals to be at that time Tried, and to take an E&s;&s;ay of the Ma&s;s &s;o Melted down as &s;aid is which &s;hal &s;tand for the whole, but Prejudice always to the &s;aids Lords of Council, to make di&s;tinct Tryals of the haill for&s;aid Journals as they &s;hal &s;ee cau&s;e: As al&s;o &s;till Recommending to them the exact Tryal of all matters relating to the Coynage at the for &s;aid two times above &s;pecified in manner mentioned in the &s;aid Act. And farder, for the better a&s;certaining of the Finene&s;s of the Coyne, His Ma|je&s;ty with Advice and Con&s;ent for &s;aid, doth hereby Ordain, that not only the Principal or Counter-warden be pre&s;ent at the taking off all E&s;&s;ays: but that there be a Plate of Silver of the true Standard finene&s;s made by the, E&s;&s;ay|Ma&s;ter at the &s;ight of &s;uch as the Lords of Privy Council &s;hal think fit to Appoint, which Plate duely made and Marked, one half thereof &s;hal be put in the hands of the Clerk of Exchequer for a Proof of the general E&s;&s;ay, and the other half in the hands of the Principal or Counter-warden: that all the Pott and Pix E&s;&s;ays may be thereby Made and Examined.</P>
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