1812: 53 George 3 c.5: An Act to continue, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for making more effectual Provision for preventing the Current Gold Coin of the Realm from being paid or accepted for a greater Value than the Current Value of such Coin; for preventing any Note or Bill of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, from being received for any smaller Sum than the Sum therein specified; and for staying Proceedings upon any Distress by Tender of such Notes.

[22d December 1812.]

WHEREAS an Act was made in the last Session of Parliament,

[52 G. 3. c. 50.]

intituled An Act to continue, until Three Months after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, and amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament,

[51 G. 3. c. 127.]

for making more effectual Provision for preventing the Current Gold Coin of the Realm from being paid or accepted for a greater Value than the Current Value of such Coin; for preventing any Note or Bill of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England from being received for any smaller Sum than the Sum therein specified; and for staying Proceedings upon any Distress by Tender of such Notes; and to extend the same to Ireland: And whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be continued; Be it therefore enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,

[continued.]

That the said Act shall be and the same is hereby continued until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

Source: Butterworths, Statutes of the United Kingdom, 1813.