Memoranda on accounting, checking and packing

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Artic. 1 That and Agent or Importer appointed to pay all charges of copper & coynage & salaries & incidents, & to receive the copper money & account for the whole.

3 That the bargains be made for copper by the Officers of the Mont & the copper be paid for by the said Agent according to such bargains signified to him under the hands of the said Officers & not otherwise.

2 That the half pence & farthings be made of pure malleable copper without any mixture of Brass or Tin, by the master of the Mint accord to such a contract as shall be made between her Majesty & the said Master

4 That When the copper is coyned the Master deliver the new copper moneys by weight to two Tellers one for the Queen & one for the Agent to tell the same & examin the tale by weight & put up the money in paper 5s or 10s in a paper & tye up every one two or four papers in a parcell with packthred & set a known scale upon the knot in order to delivery, & deliver the same to the Agent, or his Order to be dispersed & certify the Tale to the Master. The seale to be kept by the Queens teller or in a box under both their keys.

5 That the Agent take the Masters Receipts of the Copper & the Copper-mans receipt of the Price & that the Master be discharged by taking up his receipts for so much copper as he delivers to the Tellers.

That upon delivery of copper money to the tellers the Master be paid by the Agent for coynage & give the Agent receipts expressing the weight & tale of the copper.

7 That the Tellers enter in a book the weight & take of all the copper money received by them & that the Master enter in a book the weight of all the copper received & delivered by him. And that the Agent upon making up his accounts produce certificates signed by the Master & Tellers of all the copper coyned with the time of the Account