Holograph list of editorial additions and emendations to be made to the Coinage Act

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In the Clause in the Coinage Act of the 7th of the Queen; for issuing out of the Exchequer any part of the Coinage moneys not exceeding 1200li per annum for the Salaries of the Mint in Scotland & for repairing that Mint & providing necessaries the moneys should not have been restrained to those services but have been issued for the use & service of the Mint so that the weights have been applied to any part of the service. All the coinage moneys issued from the Exchequer of great Britain to the Master & Worker of the Mint in England are issued for the use & service of this Mint without restraining them to any particular services, & the Officers of this Mint apply them too particular services taking care that no more be issued out of the Exchequer  or Treasury of the Mint for Salaries, Repairs & necessaries then are allowed by Act of Parliament for those services. And in like manner all the moneys issued from the Exchequer of great Britain to the Mint in Scotland, should be issued to the Master & Worker (not to the General) for the use & service of that Mint without restraining them to particular services & the Officers of that Mint should issue them from their Exchequer or Treasury to particular services taking care that no more moneys be applied to salaries repairs & Incidents then are allowed by Act of Parliament. For by the Act of Vnion a Mint is to be continued in Scotland under the same Rules as the Mint in England. The clause therefore for issuing 1200li per annum for salaries repairs & incidents is either to be rectified or dropt. Had that clause been for issuing 1200li for the use & service of the Mint in general that no money might have sufficed for the whole charge of that Mint including the coinage, as it did in the reign of King James II & King William. For setting this matter right therefore the following amendments to the Bill are proposed.

By the Act of Vnion a Mint is to be continued in Scotland under the same Rules as the Mint in England. And therefore all the coinage money for Scotland should be issued out of the Exchequer of Great Britain to the Master & Worker (not to the General) for the use & service of that Mint & applied not by the Warrants of the Treasury but by the Officers of that Mint to particular uses, those Officers taking care that no greater summ be applied to Salaries, Repairs of Buildings & incidents then the Coinage Act allows. For this is the Constitution of the Mint in England setled by the Coinage Acts.

In the Coinage Act of the 7th of the Queen, there is a clause for issuing from the Exchequer of Great Britain any summ not exceeding 1200li to the Mint in Scotland for salaries Had this money been issued in general terms for the use & service of that Mint as it ought to have been by the Act of Vnion it might have sufficed for defraying all the charges of that Mint including the coinage, as in the reign of King James II & King William, the whole charge in those days not exceeding 1200 pounds sterling one year with another. But they who drew up that Clause have restrained all this money to Salaries repairs & incidents without taking care of the coinage & now come to the Parliament for 500li more out of the coinage Duty for carrying on a coinage in Scotland. And thus the coinage moneys are taken away from the Mint in England

For preserving this Mint & reducing the Mint in Scotland to the same Rules the following amendments to the Bill are here proposed.

Fol. 2. lin. 12. After the words [duly put in Execution] add [with relation to the Mint or Mints in England.

56. lin 14. After the words [of this present Act] add the clauses AA

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The first Amendment is for voiding the aforesaid irregular clause in the Coinage Act of the 7th of the Queen. The second is for setting the Mint of Scotland upon the same Rules with the Mint in England as it ought to be by the Act of Vnion.