Variant draft of MINT00461 (Mint 19/1/378)

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And whereas by the afforesaid Act made in the seventh year of her late Majesty the Lord Treasurer of Great Britain & under Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury or any three or more of the said Commissioners of the Treasury or were authorised by order or Warrants to issue out of the Exchequer or dispose of the moenys arising by the Coynage Duties therein granted, yearly & every year during the said Act & no longer such summ as he or they should think necessary & reasonable not exceeding in the whole the summ of twelve hundred pounds for the fees & salaries of the Officers of the Mint or Mints in Scotland & towards the providing maintaining & repairing the houses offices & buildings & other necessaries for assaying melting down & coining in the said Mint of Scotland but not sufficient provision was then made for defraying the charge of coynage: Be it further enacted that all the moneys hereafter arising by this present Act within Majesty's dominions of South Britain shall be issued to the exchequer of his Majesties Mint within the Tower of London for the use & service of the mint, & all the moneys arising by this Act within his Majesty's Dominions of North Britain shall in the same manner & by like Warrants & Orders be issued to the Exchequer of his Mint in North Britain for the use & service of that Mint & that so much moneys as shall be further wanting to maintain & support the said Mint in North Britain may by Order or Warrant of the Lord Treasurer & Chancellour of the Exchequer for the time being of the Lords Commissionners of the Treasury or any three or more of them from the time being be issued from his Majestys Exchequer out of any publick fund or funds given or which shall be given by Act of Parliament the whole summ issued to the Exchequer & said Mint not exceeding 16 hundred pounds sterling in any one year & the whole summ issued to both Mints in the same year not exceeding 15000li sterling in the same uses as above. And it is hereby further enacted that there shall not be allowed in any one year above the summ of 11 hundred pounds sterling for the fees & salaries of the Officers of the said Mint in North Britain & for the fees of receiving the said money & the charges of passing the accounts thereof & towards the providing maintaining & repairing the houses offices & buildings & the other standing necessaries for assaying melting down & coyning in the said Mint & that the overplus of the moneys issued as above shall be imployed for & towards the expence wast & charge of assaying melting down & coyning including the charge of utensils & furnaces for performing the same & that of scales & weights for receiving assaying sizing & delivering the bullion & moneys & that of stationary ware for keeping the accounts.

by the Order or Warrants of the Lord Treasurer of great Britain & Chancellour of the Exchequer of Lords Commissioners of the Treasury or any three or more of them for the time being.

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