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Fort Havoc (Wallace Hale)

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CAP. VII.

An ACT, in addition to the Laws now in force for establishing a legal tender in all payment to be made in this Province.

Passed 24th June, 1835.

Preamble.

WHEREAS from the extensive circulation of the Spanish milled dollars and the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chili and Central America, it is deemed expedient and desirable that the said dollars should pass current and be a legal tender in this Province;

Spanish, Mexican, Peruvian, and Central American dollars and parts make a legal tender.

Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That from and after the passing of this Act, the Spanish milled dollars, the Mexican dollars, the Peruvian dollars, the Chilian dollars and the dollars of Central America, and all the aliquot parts of the said respective dollars shall pass current and be a legal tender in all payments to be made in this Province, the dollars respectively at five shillings each, the aliquot parts at the same rate and proportion which such aliquot parts respectively bear to the dollars of which they are parts.

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C. 7. Anno V. Wm. IV. A. D. 1835.

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Preamble.		WHEREAS from the extensive circulation of the Spanish milled dollars and the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chili and Central America, it is deemed expedient and desirable that the said dollars should pass current and be a legal tender in this Province;
Spanish, Mexican, Peruvian, and Central American dollars and parts make a legal tender.		Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That from and after the passing of this Act, the Spanish milled dollars, the Mexican dollars, the Peruvian dollars, the Chilian dollars and the dollars of Central America, and all the aliquot parts of the said respective dollars shall pass current and be a legal tender in all payments to be made in this Province, the dollars respectively at five shillings each, the aliquot parts at the same rate and proportion which such aliquot parts respectively bear to the dollars of which they are parts.