IN the Name of His Majesty GEORGE THE FIFTH, of the United' Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency SIR WILLIAM HENRY MANNING,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,
Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
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 Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of May, 1919.
Present:
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Lord Colebrooke.
Lord Steward Lord Southborough.
Whereas His Majesty the King has power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of His Majesty's Colony of Ceylon:
And whereas by the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, a law was made respecting the coins which were to be the subject of contract and to constitute legal tender in His Majesty's said Colony:
And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Order with respect to the millesimal fineness and remedy allowance in respect of certain of the subsidiary coins specified in the Third Schedule to the said Order:
Now, therefore, His Majesty, 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. (1) 550 shall be substituted for 800 in the fourth column of the 'Third Schedule to the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, as the millesimal fineness of Ceylon fifty-cent, twenty-five cent, and ten-cent pieces coined after such date as may be fixed by the Governor of the Colony by Proclamation.
(2) 5 shall be substituted for 3 in the last column of the said Third Schedule as the corresponding remedy allowance for those coins.
2. The Governor of the Colony may, by Proclamation made with the approval of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, declare that Ceylon fifty-cent, twenty-five cent, and ten-cent pieces coined up to and including such date as may have been fixed by Proclamation under sub-section (1) of section 1 of this Order shall cease to be legal tender, notwithstanding anything in the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, and the Orders amending that Order.
3. The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply for the purpose of the Interpretation of this Order, as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
4. This Order may be cited as the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1919, and shall be construed as one with the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, and the .Orders amending that Order: and the Coinage (Ceylon) Order, 1892, the Orders in Council of the 28th day of June, 1892, and the 17th day of July, 1893, amending that Order, the Coinage (Ceylon) Amendment Order in Council, 1901, the Ceylon (Coinage) Order, 1909, and this Order may be cited together as the Coinage (Ceylon) Orders, 1892 to 1919.
And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and the Right Honourable Viscount Milner, 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. ALMERIC FITZROY.
Now therefore, We, the said Governor of Ceylon, do hereby proclaim the said Order in Council, and do further by this Proclamation fix the First day of September, 1919, as the date which may be fixed by Us in pursuance of the power vested in Us under sub- section (1) of section 1 of the said Order in Council. Given at Colombo, in the said Island of Ceylon, this Twenty-ninth . day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand Nine hundred and Nineteen.
By His Excellency's command,
A. S. PAGDEN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING
(The Ceylon Government Gazette No. 7,048 of August 29, 1919.)
Ceylon Currency British Period 1796-1936 By B. W. Fernando, APPENDIX J.
1939, Ceylon Government Press p.53-54.
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