Holograph draft of MINT00474 (Mint 19/3/198), also dated 13 September 1723

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

In obedience to your Lordships Order of Reference (dated 3 Aug & 12 Sept. 1723) upon the annexed Memorials of the General & Master of his Majesties Mint at Edinburgh, I humbly represent that by the Coynage Act which passed last Sessions of Parliament his Majestys Signe Manual directed to the General & dated 17 Novem. 1718 is become voyd. And a new one may be procured to the Master for putting in force the Indenture made between the late Queen Ann & the said Master untill a new Indenture shall be made. And that the summ of two thousand & one hundred pounds be imprest upon account to the said Master for the use & service of that Mint as is desired which summ together with the moneys formerly imprest I conceive sufficient for defraying all the charges of that Mint till Lady day last, & also for keeping five or six hundred pounds in his hands for defraying the charges of coynage till more moneys shall be issued unto him. All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdome

Is: Newton

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