12. No other silver, copper or bronze coins than those which the Crown has heretofore caused to be struck or may hereafter cause to be struck for circulation in Canada, or in some province thereof, shall be a legal tender in Canada.

13. The stamp of the year on any foreign coin made current by this Act. or any proclamation issued under it, shall establish prima facie the fact of its having been coined in that year; and the stamp of the country on any foreign coin shall establish prima facie the fact of its being of the coinage of such country.

14. No coin which has been bent or mutilated, or has been defaced by the stamping or engraving thereon of any name, word, or mark, whether such coin is or is not thereby diminished or lightened, and no coin which has in any way been reduced in weight, except by abrasion through ordinary and legitimate use, shall pass current or be a legal tender.

Accounts, Debts and Obligations.

15. All public accounts throughout Canada shall be kept in the currency of Canada; and in any statement as to money or money value, in any indictment or legal proceeding, the same shall be stated in such currency.

(2) Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument, and security for money, and every transaction, dealing, matter and thing relating to money, or involving the liability to pay any money, which was made, executed or entered into, done or had on or subsequent to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and before the coming into force of this Act, shall be deemed to have been and be, so far as anything remains to be or may be executed, done or had thereunder, as if the same was originally made, executed, done or had according to the coins made for circulation in Canada and which are legal tender in Canada .in pursuance of this Act, unless the same was made, executed, entered into, done or had according to the currency of Great Britain or of some British possession or of some foreign state.

(3) Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument and security for money, and every transaction, dealing matter and thing whatever relating to money, or involving the payment of or the liability to pay any money which is made, executed or entered into, done or had, shall be made, executed, entered into, done and had according to the coins made for circulation in Canada and which are current and legal tender in pursuance of this Act, unless the same be made, executed, entered into, done or had, according to the currency of Great Britain or of some British possession or some foreign state.

16. All sums mentioned in dollars and cents in The British North American Act, 1867, and in all Acts of the Parliament of Canada shall, unless it is otherwise expressed, be understood to be sums in the currency of Canada.

17. All sums of money payable on and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to the Crown, or to any person, under any Act or law in force in Nova Scotia, passed before the said day, or under any bill. note, contract, agreement or other document or instrument, made before the said day in and with reference to that province, or made after the said day out of Nova Scotia and with reference thereto, and which were intended to be, and but for such alteration would have been payable in the currency of Nova Scotia, as fixed by law previous to the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, shall hereafter be represented and payable, respectively, by equivalent sums in the currency of Canada, that is to say, for every seventy-five cents of Nova Scotia currency, by seventy-three cents of the currency of Canada, and so in proportion for any greater or less sum; and if in any such sum there is a fraction of a cent in the equivalent in the currency of Canada, the nearest whole cent shall be taken.

18. Any debt or obligation contracted before the first day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, in the currency then lawfully used in the Province of British Culumbia, or in the Province of Prince Edward Island, shall, if payable thereafter, be payable by an equivalent sum in the currency of Canada.

Dominion and Bank Notes.

19. No Dominion note nor bank note payable in any other currency than the currency of Canada shall be issued or reissued by the Government of Canada, or by any bank (except as otherwise provided by The Bank Act), and all such notes issued before the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one which are outstanding and legal obligations shall be redeemed, or notes payable in the currency of Canada shall be substituted or exchanged for them.

(2) The respective sums which Dominion notes and bank notes, now in circulation issued on or after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. and before the coming into force of this Act, purport to be obligations to pay, shall be deemed to be sums in the currency of Canada as by this Act established.

Powers of the Governor in Council

20. The Governor in Council may from time to time by proclamation do all or any of the following things: (a) Determine the dimensions of and designs for any coin;

(b) In addition to the denominations of coins mentioned in the schedula hereto, determine the denominations of other coins to be coined and, subject to the provisions of this Act, the remedy and least current weight therefor:

(c) Diminish the amount of remedy allowed by the schedule hereto in the case of any coin;

(d) Determine the weight, not being less than the weight (if any) specified in the schedule hereto, below which a coin, when diminished in weight by abrasion through ordinary and legitimate use, is not to be deemed a current or legal tender;

(e) Make regulations under which the Minister of Finance may redeem silver, copper or bronze coins issued for circulation in Canada which by reason of abrasion through ordinary and legitimate use are no longer fit for circulation;

(f) Call in coins of any date or denomination;

(g) Revoke or alter any proclamation previously made.

(2) Every such proclamation shall be published in The Canada Gazette and shall thereupon come into operation on the date of such publication, and shall have effect as if it were enacted in this Act.