To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the LdLord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please your LordpLordship

We have consi

In obedience to yoryour LopsLordships Order of Reference of 27th Nov. we have considered upon the annexed Memorial of the three CommrsCommissioners appointed by her MatsMajestys late Privy Council of Scotland to receive all the ScottsScots & Forreign coin, see it melted into Ingots & to be & delivered to be coined & certify the deficiency, in wchwhich Memorial they humbly praydesire that yoryour LordpLordship will be pleased to appoint them a suitable reward: We have considered the same & are for their own painsattendance & trouble & to pay their Clerk & other servants & defray the dayly charge they are put to: We have considered the sameid Memorial & becausbecause these attendance business of these CommrsCommissioners requirinesg a care diligent attendance & circumspected at the meltings [& havinthg already lasted above a year & a quarter,] & their trust in receiving the old money by tale tale & weight & computing & certifying the deficiency is also considerable; we are humbly of opinion that [for all their service from yethe beginning to yethe end of yethe coynage] they may deserve for themselves & their Clerk & other servants [the summ of eight hundred pounds one half thereof at present & the other shalf so soon aas the coinage shall be finished & we are humbly of opinion that the Equivalent is the most proper fund out of wchwhich this reward should be paid] one quarter per cent or two pence per pound weight of all the new Ingotts of silver delivered from the melting pot to the Master of the Mint by weight & assay to be coined,after the rate of threthree farthings per pound tale of all the new money paid back from the Mint to priva the Bank & from the Bank to private importers. & these CommrsCommissioners acting in behalf acting with the Bank of Scotland & public importers & doing the business in of private persons for lessening their charge before the coynage of their silver begins we are humbly of opinion that of theirthere be or shall be any money remaining out of wchwhich the equivalent iswas the most proper fund for the payment of this allowanceif theirre be or shall be any money remaining on this fund out of wchwhich it can be paid& that it should have been deducted for & reserved for these CommrsCommissioners out of the new moneys paid back to private importers from the beginning of the coynage & reserved for paying the Commrs Commissioners three Commrs, wchwhich deduction & reservation not being made we know not what other fund to propose for the time past.. And whereas by an Act of yethe last Parliament it wasit was enacted that the all dues from the Equivalent should be paid in such oOrder as the Exchequer of North Britain should appoints the designe of wchwhich Act we humbly conceive was not to contradict or repeale any part of yethe Act of Vnion but only to order the course of payments so far as it was not ordered by the Act of Vnion & in the said Act of Vnion there is a clause for importing that the losses wchwhich private persons may sustein by the recoinage of the money should in the first place be made good out of yethe Equivalent: We are humbly of opinion that the CommrsCommissioners of yethe Equivalent may lawfully pay the said summsallowances before all other dues not relating to yethe coinage