Demonetizing of Uma Rupia
HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to direct that the subjoined copy of the Order of Her Majesty in Council dated July 17, 1893, amending the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, by demonetizing the rupee of Portuguese India in Ceylon, be published for general information.
| By His Excellency's command, | |
| Colonial Secretary's Office, | J. A. SWETTENHAM, |
| Colombo, August 17, 1893. | Acting Colonial Secretary. |
| At the Court at Windsor, the 17th day of July, 1893. | |
| Present: | |
| THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. | |
| Lord President. | Marquess of Ripon. |
| Lord Steward. | Sir Edmund Monson. |
WHEREAS by the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, Her Majesty was pleased by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make a law respecting the coin constituting legal tender in Her Majesty's Colony of Ceylon:
And whereas by such Order it was, inter alia, declared that a tender of payment of money in the said Colony if made in the rupee of Portuguese India, being the coin specified in the second schedule to such Order, should be a legal tender in the said Colony:
And whereas it is deemed expedient that the last-mentioned provision of such Order should be repealed:
Now therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and by virtue of all powers vested in Her Majesty in that behalf, doth hereby ordain and declare as follows ;
A tender of payment of money in the Colony of Ceylon, if made in the rupee of Portuguese India, shall, from and after the 19th day' of July, 1893, cease to be a legal tender, and so much of the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, as makes tender of payment in such coin a legal tender shall, as from the said 19th day of July, 1893, be, and is hereby repealed.
2. At any time within such period after the 19th day of July, 1893, as the Governor of the Colony shall by Proclamation appoint, rupees of Portuguese India will be received at any Government Treasury in the Colony, and will be exchanged for rupees of British India.
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and the Marquess of Ripon, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the requisite directions for causing this Order to be proclaimed in the Colony.
C. L. PEEL.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN (The Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary of July 19, 1893.)
Ceylon Currency British Period 1796-1936 By B. W. Fernando, APPENDIX F.
1939, Colombo; Ceylon Government Press p.48-49
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Coins of Lakdiva, Ceylon and Sri Lanka since 300 BCE.