Anne R.

Whereas upon the Votes & Address of Our ComonsCommons in Parliamt.Parliament Assembled, We did by WarrtWarrant under Our RoyllRoyall Sign Manuall dated yethe 10th day of May last Authorize & Comand, the Warden Master & Worker & Comptroller of Our Mint in Our Tower of London to take & receive from all ꝑpersons & Bodys politick or Corporate all such wrought plate as they or any of them should bring to Our said Mint of the kinds & standards mencondmentioned in the said Votes, And to give such Rects.Receipts for the same as were deliver'd in the said Address of Our Commons, and forthwith to cause the same to be melted down & assayed, And that you yethe Master & Worker of Our said Mint should imediately Coin yethe same into shillings & sixpences & pay the Moneys produced into yethe RectReceipt of Our Excheqr.Exchequer & take Tallys for Your discharge, And Whereas in the Act of ParliamtParliament Entituled [An Act for Lycencing & regulating Hackney Coaches & Chairs, & for Charging certain new Dutys on Stampt Vellom parchmtparchment & paper & on Cards & Dice & on the ExportaconExportation of Rock salt for Ireland and for securing thereby and by a Weekly paymt.payment out of yethe Post Office and by SevllSeverall Dutys on Hides & Skinns a Yearly Fond of 186670l. for 32 years to be Applyed to the Satisfacction of such Orders as are therein mencondmentioned by the Contributors of any Sum̄mm not Exceeding Two Millions to be rais'd for Carrying on the Warr and other Her MatsMajestys occasions] It is Enacted That all and every the Rects.Receipts given for the plate brought into the said Mint before yethe 15th day of May 1711 should be accepted & taken as so much Money for the Fourth part of the ContribuconsContributions upon the said Act, but no provision is made for accepting the Rects.Receipts dated on or after the said 15th day of May, Now That Our loving Subjects may not want the use both of the Rects.Receipts & yethe New Moneys Coined out of their plate Our Will & pleasure is And We do hereby Authorize & Com̄mmand You the said Master & Worker of Our Mint to pay unto Each of the Importers of Plate whose RectsReceipts are dated on or after the said 15th day of May at the Rate of 5sh ꝑper Ounce for yethe plate Imported any thing in Our former WarrtWarrant to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding, But You are to take Care, that an Exact AccotAccount be kept of yethe difference between the Sum̄mms so paid by You in the pursuance here of, And the Rates at wchwhich the said plate was delive'd according to Your said Receipts and of the Totall Amount thereof. And for so doing this shall be Your WarrtWarrant. Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle the 30th day of Iuly 1711 In the Tenth Year of Our Reign

By her MatsMajestys Comand

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