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Mint-master

Mint-master, one who manages the coinage. See MASTEROF THEMINT....

Master of the Mint, an officer who receives bullion for coinage, and pays for it and superintends everything belonging to the Mint. He is usually called the Warden of the Mint. It is provided by the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 Vict. c. 10), s. 14, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being shall be the Master of the Mint....

Mint master

The master or superintendent of a mint Also used figuratively...

Mint-mark

Mint-mark. The masters and workers of the Mint, in the indentures made with them, agree 'to make, of gold and silver, so that they may know which moneys were of their own making'; after every trial of the pyx, having proved their moneys to be lawful, they are entitled to their quietus under the Great Seal, and to be thereupon discharged from all suits or actions; they then change the privy mark, so that the moneys from which they are not yet discharged may be distinguished from those for which they are; they use the new mark until another trial of the pyx. See (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. See PYX...

Assayer of the King

Assayer of the King, an officer of the Mint, who tried the silver; he was appointed by the Master of the Mint and the merchants who carried silver thither for exchange, Blount....

Bullion

Bullion [fr. billon, Fr., copper], uncoined gold and silver in the mass. Those metals are called so, either when smelted from the native ore, and not perfectly refined; or when they are perfectly refined, but melted down into bars or ingots, or into any unwrought body, of any degree of fineness. As to the purchase of bullion for the Mint, see (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 9, which provides that the Treasury may, from time to time, issue to the Master of the Mint such sums as may be necessary to enable him to purchase bullion to provide supplies of coin for the public service. As to the weights used in sales of bullion, see Weights and Measures Act, 1878, replacing 16 & 17 Vict. c. 29. See CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES ACT.Means gold or silver in the mass. It connotes gold or Silver regarded as raw material and it may be either in the form of raw gold or silver or ingots or bars of gold or silver, Deputy Commissioner Sales Tax (Board of Revenue) v. G.S. Pai, AIR 1980 S...

Trade, Board of

Trade, Board of. The Board of Trade is in theory a committee of the Privy Council, and by s. 12 of the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, the expression means 'The Lords of the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.' The constitution of the Board rests on an Order in Council of the 5th March, 1784, by which amongst the members composing it are the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Paymaster-General and the Master of the Mint.The Board as to constituted has in fact never met, but in practice is an ordinary administrative Government Department, presided over by a President whose salary is determined by Parliament under the (English) Board of Trade Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 23); see also President of Board of Trade Act, 1932 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 21). Its powers include supervision over the following matters: shipping, railways, mines, companies, bankruptcy and in...

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