Currency Act 1824 No 1a (NSW)

ANNO QUINTO

GEORGII IV. REGIS.

No. I.

An Act to make Promissory Notes unci Bills of Exchange payable in Spanish Dollars available as if such Notes and Bills had been drawn pay­ able in Sterling Money of the Realm. [28th

September, 1824.]

WH E R E A S the ordinary business of Buying and Selling in the said Colony and the Dependencies thereof is and lias long been

transacted in a Foreign Silver Coin commonly called Spanish Dollars

and by Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes payable in such Dollars And whereas to improve the security of the said Bills and Notes will promote trade and just dealing Now therefore it is hereby enacted That all Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes payable in such Dollars as aforesaid shall be holden in the Courts of Law of the said Colony and of the Dependencies thereof to be valid negotiable and transferable instruments and the holders of the same and all other persons interested therein shall have and be allowed in the said Courts all such remedies in respect of their claims upon such Bills and Notes as aforesaid as if the said Bills and Notes had been drawn payable in money of the Realm.

No. I I .