Incomplete holograph draft of MINT00278 (Mint 19/2/577-83) giving the date for the proposed act to come into force as 1 June 1702

Whereas by certain clauses in an Act of Parliament made in the sixt year of his Majesties reign intituled An Act to prevent the Counterfeiting and Clipping the coin of this kingdome it is enacted that no molten silver may be transported unless the same be first marked or stamped at Goldsmith's Hall & there proved and certified to be forreign silver and by another Act made in the seventh year of his Majesties reign intituled An Act to encourage the bringing Plate into the Mint to be coyned and for the further remedying the ill state of the coyn of the Kingdome it is enacted that no Bullion be shipped for exportation without certificate from the Court of the Lord Maior & Aldermen of the city of London that the same hath been proved upon oath made before them to be forreign Bullion and certain penalties are laid upon such persons as shall export or ship any other Bullion then foreign, and notwithstanding these laws great complaints are still made concerning the melting down of the coyn in private for exportation, and Merchants who import silver from abroad are at greater charge and trouble then is necessary in carrying the same from place to place in order to get the silver melted in private shops (if it be not yet in the Ingot) & the Ingots marked & certified for exportation at Goldsmiths Hall & Yeild Hall; Be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled & by the authority of the same that from and after the first day of Iune which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and two all & every the aforesaid clauses of the two Acts of Parliament above mentioned which relate to the marking certifying & exporting of forreign Bullion and punishing Offenders who export other Bullion then forreign be repealed and made voyd and they are hereby repealed accordingly And it be further enacted by the authority aforesaid that from and after the said first day of Iune all molten silver or Bullion and all unmanufactured