Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The Legislature of South-Carolina have passed an Ordinance, empowering Mr. Charles Borrel to coin 20,000 l. sterling, in silver coin, and 10,000 l. sterling, in copper. The silver to be three-fourths in pieces of the value of one shilling, and one fourth in pieces of sixpence each, which pieces are to be of the same weight as English shillings and six-pences, and to contain an alloy proportioned to that of the French crowns: This coin is declared to be the lawful money of that State, receivable and issuable as such at the value aforesaid in all payments at and from the Treasury, and a tender in law according to the rates and value aforesaid, in satisfaction of all private contracts, and the counterfeiting, clipping, defacing or debasing the same is felony without the benefit of clergy.