Lot 3933

Description

South Australian Acts of Parliament, 1837-1858, seventy five select Acts bound into one volume, buckram, half leather, with some handwritten ink notes marking updated parts; Deacon, J.Hunt., The Ingots and Assay Office Pieces of South Australia, Melbourne, c1956, 70pp., with illustrations, signed by author. Very fine. (2)

Of particular numismatic interest in the S.A. Acts of Parliament is the following., 1852 No.1: An Act to provide for the Assaying of Uncoined Gold, and to make Bank Notes under certain conditions, A legal Tender. 1852 No.14: An Act to repeal part of Act 1., ...to provide that Stamped Gold shall be Legal Tender. 1853 No.12: An Act to authorize the sale of Gold and Gold Dust by the Colonial Treasurer. 1858 No.4: An Act to facilitate the remedies on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes by the prevention of frivolous or fictitious defences to actions thereon.