May it please yoryour LordpsLordships

In obedience to your LordpsLordships Order of Reference upon the petitionMemorial of the General of the Mint ofin Scotland for impresting upon acctaccount 2400li to his LordspLordship out of the Coinage Duty as due for the service of the said Mint for the two years ending at Christmas last together with such further summ as your LordpsLordships shall judge necessary for bearing the charge of coinage, I humbly represent, That That be the Act of Coinage Act before the Act of Vnion the Moneys no alteratio there was to be a Mint in Scotland conformable to the Mint in England, & by the Coinage Act wchhich passed in the first year of his MtyMajesty for continuing the Acts former Acts for encouragement of coinage, your LordpsLordships are impoured, out of the moneys arising in Great Brittain by the said Act to cause so much money to be applied issued out of the Mint Exchequer to the Master of the Mint in England & to the General of the Mint in Scotland respectively by way of imprest & upon account for that service as shall be necessary for defraying the expences of the said Mints. And accordingly 1200 That upon this Actsince the nations of this Act the summ of 1200li has been already issued to that Mint the General of that Mint & an Account of wchwhich should be certified tp your Lordps not as an Annuity due to the Mint but upon aAccount, & theforetherefore an aAccount thereof should be certified to your LordpsLordships in order to know what moneys are to be further imprest to his LordpLordship.

That the standing salaries of the Officers of that Mint amount unto 930li per anannum [besides 50li per anannum allowed unto the Clerk of the Bullion untill the place his place becomes void, he being a superfluous Officer.] And if about 40 or 50li more be allowed yearly for repairing the Offices & keeping the dwelling houses wind & water title., the whole will be less then 1040li & the] & therefore if 1000li per anannum d towards the charges of coinage & of keeping the Offices in repair & the dwelling houses wind & water tite, & the ballance of the Account may be paid offof after certified into the Treasury annually in order to be paid off. There is also a further salary of 50li per anannum allowed to the Clerk of the Bullion untill his place becomes void he being an useless officer. And the Indenture of theat Mint became void by the said late Act of Parliament in relation to the Masters Office office of receiving & paying & accounting.

All which being considered I am humbly of opinio 7amp; that by the Act of Vnion the two Mints ought to be as in England is not altered & the Mint in Scotland ought to be conformable to that in England: I am humbly of opinion that out o the money arising by the coinage Act in England be still imprest to the Master & Worker in England of his MatiesMajesties Mint in the Tower by a Sign ManManual as before the the Act of union & in the same manner . And that out of the moneys arising by the coinnagecoinage Act in great Britain so much be imprest from time to the signime upon acctaccount for the use & service of his Majesties mint at Edinburgh & upon accou by a like Sign Manual as shall be sufficient, for the use 7amp; serviec that Mint & the for the maintenance thereof. As untillso that the whole moneys amount unto the upon the do not from time to time upon the same sign manual do not exceed a certain summ suposesuppose t

The salaries ofiIn the Mint in ScoldandScotland the salaries amount only to 980li per anannum whereof 50li per anannum is to cease at the death of the late Clerk of the Bullion: & therefore 1200li per anannum to that Mint without including the charge of coynage is too much. If to the 200li already in their hands 1800li more be added to make up the whole summ 3000 for the three years ending at Christmas last & the 1800li be imprest in for to the said General for the use & service of that Mint in general so that it may be appliedcable to all sorts of charges: when the Account is made up for the said till Christmas last, & the ballance of the account is certified to your LordpsLordships, it will then appear what to your LordpsLordships what further summ should be imprest.

The stan salaries of that Mint amount unto 980li per anannum whereof 50li per anannum is allowed to the late Clerk of the Bullion during lif his life & 50li per anannum hads beenwas added to the Wardens place salary f a little before the Vnion in consideration of services done to some of the Nobility of Scotland. And when these two fifty pounds cease the salaries will amount only to 880li per annuannum. And therefore an Annuity of twelve hundred pounds per anannum without including the charge of coinage is too much.

It may be sufficient at present to add 12800li more to the 1200li already imprest, so as to make the whole summ 3000li advanced for the three years ending at Christmas last. And when the Accounts shall be made up for those three years & a copy thereof sent to your LordpsLordships, the ballance of the Acct will make it will then appear what to your LordpsLordships what further summ should be imprest. But I am humbly of opinion that there should be a signe Manual – – – untill a new Indenture shall be made.

And when that Mint shall be to a posture to coine, care may be taken that there be always a summ of money lodged in S (suppose of one, oror two hundred or threeor three hundred pounds,) lodged in the Generals hands for bearing the charges thereof, & appropriated to that service; with direction that whenever that summ shall fall short, dthe charges of coinage be born out of any other moneys in the Generals hands untill the ballance thereofdeficiency can be made up

All wchwhich &c

✱ & the charge of repairing keeping the Officers in repair & the dwelling houses wind & waster tite can be but small.

And that there may be no more complaints of the want of moneys to beare the charges of coynage, the General may have notice to pay those charges in the first place & let the deficiency (if there by any) fall upon the salaries.