p171
Letter from
C. Shakespear (at
In reply to
your letter of the 11th currect, I have the commands of the Governor
General in Council to desire you will send to the Moorshedabd mint for
recoinage the 11, 12, 15 and old 19 sun rupees if the latter are of short
weight to the amount of sicca rupees 48,018 which has been returned to you by
the commercial resident at Jungypore – as they were become bullion at the time
you wrote your letter and consequently were neither receivable or issuable in
any transaction public or private.
To the
second query in your address I am to refer you to the regulation you quote of
The sam
erecolution applies to the 3rd point and directs that all 19 sun
siccas whether new or old, of full weight, are to be recoined.
In future
you will be pleased not to correspond with the Governor General in Council but
through the Board of Revenue.
p203
From
I am
instructed to request that the Board of Revenue will be pleased to call upon
the Collector of Moorshedabad to report on the quantity of copper pice he may
have in his treasury, which cannot be disposed of without loss, in consequence
of the orders of 30th of October, that he should receive pice from
the Postmaster at that station upon the terms on which they had been paid to
him, or from any other cause.
p223
To
Murshidbad from the Board of Revenue, enclosure dated
We have had
before us your letters of the 7th November and 7th August
last, and your secretary’s letters of the 25th August & 1st
ultimo, respecting the difficulties which have been experienced in consequence
of the existing rules for receiving rupees by weight.
We have
resolved that all sicca rupees of the 19th sun which shall not have
lost by wear a greater proportion of their full weight than six annas per cent
or six sixteenths of a rupee in one hundred rupees, shall be considered as of
full weight and received accordingly in all public and private transactions.
You will
however, particularly point out to the Collectors, that the above rule is to be
considered applicable to loss of weight by wear only, and that where any such
rupee shall have lost any part of their full weight by filing, clipping or
other artificial means, they are to direct the podars and officers who examine
the money before it is weighed off, to reject them.
Rupees of
the 19th sun of the description specified in the preceding paragraph
and rupees of the 19th sun which may have lost by wear or otherwise
a greater proportion of their full weight then six annas per cent, are to be
received so long as the rules prescribed by the 35th Regulation of
1793, for receiving rupees of sorts at the public treasuries may remain in
force, agreeably to the following rule: for one hundred sicca weight of such
light nineteenth sun sicca rupees the payer is to receive credit for one
hundred sicca rupees. The light rupees so received at the public treasuries are
not to be dispersed therefrom, but are invariably to be sent to the mints to be
recoined.
The Mint
Master at Calcutta will furnish you on your application for the use of the
Collectors with stampt copper weights of fifty sicca rupees each, or such other
number of sicca weight as you may require, and against which all receipts in
your department, whether consisting of rupees of the 19th sun or rupees
of sorts (so long as rupees of the latter description may be receivable at the
public treasuries) and all payments in silver, which are invariably to be made
in sicca rupees of the 19th sun only, are to be weighed.
The above
rules are of course to be applied to the halves and quarters of the 19th
sun sicca rupees.
It is our
intention that the preceding rules shall be made general, and a regulation for
that purpose will be accordingly framed and printed and published in the manner
prescribed in the 41 regulation of 1793.
p223
To
Murshidbad from the Board of Revenue, enclosure dated
I am
directed by the Board of Revenue to transmit to you for your information and
guidance the enclosed copy of a letter from the Governor General in Council
I am
likewise directed to acquaint you that the Board desire you will state to them what
weights will be required at your treasury for the purpose mentioned in the 5th
paragraph of the orders of Government.
p225
To
Murshidbad from
I am
directed by the Governor General in Council to desire you will inform the Board
of Revenue that orders have been issued to the judges of the zillah and city
courts to pay to the Collectors any rupees of sorts not siccas of the 19 sun
which may be among the deposits in their respective treasuries; the Governor
General in Council desires that the Board will instruct the collectors to send
all such rupees immediately to the mint to be recoined.
p226
To
Murshidbad from
I am directed
to acquaint you that the Board of Revenue having addressed the Governor General
in Council respecting the weights required for the different Collectorships,
the Mint Master has been directed to prepare ten setts for the use of your
office, of the following denominations
1,
2, 4, 8 annas. 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 rupees
Two setts
will in the first instance be forwarded to you as soon as they can be prepared, and the remainder as soon afterwards as may be
practicable for the use of your mofussil treasuries.
p233
To
Murshidbad from
I am
directed to desire you will inform the Board of Revenue that the Governor
General in Council desires thay will communicate the following orders to the
Collector of Murshidabad. That they will direct him to repay to Lieutant Agg
the amount deposited in this treasury sicca rupees 2,017 together with the
further sum of sicca rupees 2,731-3-4 being the amount due to the Assay Master
on an adjustment of accounts of the Moorshedabad mint to the end of October.
The Governor
General in Council having further resolved that the coinage of the Moorshedabad
mint be for the present discontinued, he desires that they will order the
Collector to discharge the establishment, and to pay the arrears to the date on
which he may receive their order; that they will also direct him to pay to
lieut Agg the amount of his salary to this date from which time the appointment
is considered as abolished.
The Governor
General in Council desires they will order the Collector to send to the Mint
Master at the Presidency all the coining implements and machinery and stores
belonging to the mint with the exception of such as may be necessary for the
process of assaying, which latter he is to retain. He is also to be instructed
to retain possession of the house rented for the mint, it being the intention
of Government to take into consideration the expediency of staioning an Assay
Master at Moorshedabad for the purpose of receiving bullion and old and light
coin and granting certificates for its produce payable at the public treasuries
and for transmitting the coin or bullion to the Calcutta mint.
p234
To
Murshidbad from
I am
directed by the Governor General in Council to desire you will lay before the
Board of Revenue the accompanying letter from the Mint Master and inform them
he has been directed to stamp the weights with the usual mark, denoting the
specific weight of each and also to prepare a separte set of weights for each
Collectorship to be kept for the purpose of accasionally trying the weights in
common use.
The Governor
General in Council desires that the Board will inform the Collectors that they
are supply themselves with scales.
p441
To
Murshidbad from
The Acting
Mint Master at
p468
To
Murshidbad from
I am
directed by the Board of Revenue to acquaint you in reply to your letter of the
9th ultimo, that the Governor General in Council has been pleased to
confirm the sale of the building, formerly appropriated to the use of the mint
at Moorshedabad.
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