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powers enabling Her Majesty in this behalf, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1. The time within which any coins mentioned in section one of the Coinage Act, 1889, may be tendered for exchange in Her Majesty's Australasian Colonies, shall be on or before the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

2. The manner in which any coins mentioned in the Coinage Act, 1889, may be tendered in Her Majesty's Australasian Colonies with a view to being exchanged or paid for at their nominal value shall be as follows, namely:—

The same may be tendered during business hours at the branch of Her Majesty's Royal Mint at Sydney, or at the branch of Her Majesty's Royal Mint at Melbourne, and shall be left there for such time prior to the exchange or payment as may be reasonably necessary for examination, and weighing in order to ascertain whether any coin has been illegally dealt with within the meaning of the said Act.

And the Master of Her Majesty's Royal Mint is hereby directed to carry into effect the provisions of the said Act for exchanging or paying for at their nominal value all such coins as are so tendered, and have not been illegally dealt with.

C. L. PEEL.


PROCLAMATION CALLING IN ALL PRE-VICTORIAN GOLD COINS.

By the Queen.

A Proclamation.

Victoria, R.

Wheras by the Coinage Act, 1870,[1] We are empowered, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to call in coins of any date or denomination, or any coins coined before the date in such Proclamation mentioned.

And whereas by the Coinage Act, 1889,[2] it was provided that any gold coin of the realm, coined before our reign which should be below the least current weight as provided by the Coinage Act, 1870, might, within the time and in the manner, from time to time, directed by Us in Council, be tendered for ex- change, and if it had not been illegally dealt with should be exchanged or paid for by or on behalf of the Mint at its nominal value.

And whereas We, by Orders in Council made pursuant to the Coinage Act, 1889, on the thirteenth day of December, one thou- sand eight hundred and eighty-nine,[3] and eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety,[4] ordered that the time

  1. ↑ 33 & 34 Vict. c. 10.
  2. ↑ 52 & 53 Vict. c. 58.
  3. ↑ Published in "London Gazette," December 13, 1889, p. 7301.
  4. ↑ Printed above, at p. 225.
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