IN the name of His Majesty EDWARD THE SEVENTH of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency the Right Honourable SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Ceylon,
with the Dependencies thereof.
WHEREAS We have received from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies directions to proclaim His Majesty's Order in Council, as follows :-
At the Court at St. James' the 26th day of September, 1901.
Present:
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
Lord George Hamilton. Mr. St. John Brodrick.
Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Charles Scott.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the 6th day of February, 1892, Her late Majesty Queen Victoria was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make a law respecting the coin constituting legal tender in the Colony of Ceylon:
And whereas it is expedient to amend the aforesaid Order by constituting the sovereign a legal tender in the said Colony: Now therefore, His Majesty the King, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and by virtue of all powers vested in His Majesty in that behalf, doth hereby ordain and declare as follows :-
1. A tender of payment of money, if made in sovereigns which have been issued by His Majesty's Royal Mint in England or by any branch of that Mint for the time being established, and have not been called in by any Proclamation made in pursuance of The Coinage Act, 1870, and have not been diminished in weight by wear or otherwise so as to be of less weight than the weight specified or declared for the purpose by or in pursuance of the said Act, shall be legal tender in His Majesty's Colony of Ceylon for a payment of any amount at the rate of one sovereign for fifteen rupees.
2. This Order may be cited as The Coinage (Ceylon) Amendment Order in Council, 1901, and shall come into force upon the date to be fixed in that behalf by Proclamation of the Governor in Council.
The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the requisite directions for causing this Order to be proclaimed in His Majesty's said Colony.
A. W. FITZROY.
Now therefore, We, the said Governor of Ceylon in Council, in pursuance and exercise of the authority vesting in Us by the said Order in Council, do hereby proclaim and direct that the said Order in Council shall and do take effect and come into force in His Majesty's Colony of Ceylon and the Dependencies thereof from and after the 25th day of October, 1901.
Given at Colombo, in the said Island of Ceylon, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand Nine hundred and One.
By His Excellency's command,
W. T. TAYLOR,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING
(The Ceylon Government Gazette No #### of DD MMM 1901)
Ceylon Currency British Period 1796-1936 By B. W. Fernando, APPENDIX G.
1939, Colombo; Ceylon Government Press p.49-50
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Coins of Lakdiva, Ceylon and Sri Lanka since 300 BCE.