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Spirit to be supplied to all who want wish for it, sufficient to keep it the article from rising above its actual money price & this which with severe & effectual Regulation to prevent all Persons but those Licensd by Government from trading in Spirits, Similar to those of our excise laws it might may only be done & Secondly in supplying to supply a adequate circulating medium in money & in bills adequate to the necessities of the Colony which may Easily be done as is processed over the filling Regulations which has given an opportunity to the Birmingham Coiners to exercise their ingenuity & they have already much increased the amounmt number of these Pieces in Circulation.
The Colony at Present Possesses no coin but that struck by Mr. Boulton & sent out in 1800, its amount is -- & it consists of farthings, half pence & Pence each of which is priced at double its English nominal value. #
# the first it is presumed may be done without [record?], if severe & effectual regulations similar to those of the excise Laws here are conferred there for the to Prevent prohibiting all persons except those Licensd by Government from vending Spirit on any Pretence Either in Trade or in Truck, for the Second the Project below is Submitted as likely to answer the intended purpose. on the following Plan
In order to accommodate the Colony properly it is proposd first to call in the Present Copper Currency & Reissue at its English Value next to send out that an additional Stock of Copper Coin of the same denominations should be sent out & secondly thirdly that Tokens representing Sixpences, Shillings & half Crowns be also struck here furnishd & issued by the government there.
As the Issue of a Coin Circulatory medium will in this case be made for the first time it will be easy to arrange it on a Decimal Scale in order to induce the People in due time to keep their accounts in Scale Decimal numbers instead of Pounds Shillings & pence a facility which the French adopted & is possibly the only good Consequence of their Revolution & which Every nation wishes for tho none but the French & the Portuguese are in possession of it.