Draft of MINT00140 (Mint 19/1/325)

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To the Right Honble the Lord Commissioners of his Majesties Treasur{illeg}y.

May it please your Lordships

The Act of Coinage being near expiring, We have thought it our Duty humbly to lay before your Lordships the annexed Abstract shewing what the Moneys leviable by that Act have abmounted unto these five three years past last past, & what the charges of the Mints in the Tower & at Edinburgh have abmounted unto during the same time. And the TBy this Abstract the Income has been about 9600li yearly at a medium & the Expence about 142{illeg}380 yearly which isAnd ttthis expence is to the Income as about 3 to 2.

The coynage has been increasinedg every year since the peace & if it continues to be so great as it has been the two last years the charge of the Mint will exceed the income by about five or six thousand pounds yearly. This charge has been supplied hitherto out of the stock which accrued to the Mint in the time of the war when the coynage was small, & by the great coinage di since the was peace this stock is now reduced to less then one thousand pounds, which will scarce suffice to carry on the coinage above a month longer.

Wherefore We humbly propose to yor Lordships that the House of Commons may be moved that the Act of Coinage may be renewed this session of Parliament with an augmentation of the Duty from ten shillings in the Tun per Tun to fifteen shillings per Tun upon wines &c & from 20s to 30s per Tun upon Brandy, with such Restrictions or Aplplications of the money arising therefrom as the House shall think fitt.