Coinage Act 1696

II. One or more Mills to be for the Coinage of Gold.

18 & 19 Car. 11. c. 5; Coinage of Gold and Silver to be kept in distinct Accounts.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master and Worker and other Officers of his Majesties Mint in the Tower of London shall on or before the Tenth Day of November One thousand six hundred ninety six prepare and sett apart one or more Mill or Mills Presse or Presses with other Conveniences to be in the first Place imployed in the Coinage of Gold which shall be brought thither by any Person or Persons Native or Forreigner to be received in coined and delivered out in such manner course and order as by the aforesaid Statute made in the Eighteenth Yeare of King Charles the Second is directed and appointed so that the course in Coinage of Gold and Silver be kept in distinct Accounts and not interferre one with another either in receiving into or delivering out of his Majesties said Mint and that such coining and delivering out Gold in a distinct course according to the time of bringing in the same although there be Silver remaining there uncoined shall not be interpreted any undue preferrence to incurr any Penalty in point of delivery of Money coined Any thing in the said Statute of the Eighteenth of King Charles the Second or other Statute to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.