fixed by the relation of the supply to the demand, and no one is bound to take gold in the place of the legal silver value of the
- Our Finance Minister is empowered to settle the price at which the crown and the half-crown shall be taken into our pay offices.
The established rate, as well as the permission to receive crowns and half-crowns instead of silver coins in our offices, may at any time be revoked or restricted by the publication of a proclamation by our Finance Minister.
- Our Minister of State is also authorised to fix the value above which foreign gold and silver coins must not be offered or given in payment in ordinary transactions.
The subsequent course of events and the existing Prussian (Imperial German) system have been already specified (see text, p. 215).
Hamburg.
The origin of