Returns an account in which the annual total of £3,500 allowed under the Coinage Acts of 1666 and 1705 for Mint expenditure on fees, salaries, maintenance, repair and equipment has been exceeded Auditor c. 154 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 1714, c. 154 words. Isaac Newton

[See Craig, NATM, 87-9 and Westfall, 757-8 on this document and Newton's response to it in the next five entries.]

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By the Coinage Act of ye.the 18th. of Car. 2d. the Fees and salaries of the Officers of the Mint, the charges of Providing maintaining and reparingrepairing the houses, Offices and Buildings of the mint and other Necessaries for Assaying, Melting-down & Coyning were not to exceed Three thousand pounds ꝑper Ann.Annum but that sum not being found sufficient, and yethe residue of ye.the mony Arising by ye.the said Coynage Act being appropriated, a further Provision was made of any sum not exceeding five hundred Pounds ꝑper Ann Annum for ye.the same uses by an Act 4to. & 5to. Annæ; And Mr. Auditor Harley finding that by ye.the Inclosed Accompts both these sums have been Exceeded in the Articles abovemenconentioned, directs me to send you ye.the said Accompts, desiring the said Charges may be reduced, as they ought to be, according to ye.the direction of the saic Acts, I am

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