From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mint Staff
Date:
[2 January 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0676.1; Reel 1089
Summary:
Orders Stronghold no. 3 in Coining Department to be cleaned daily instead of weekly.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Orders Stronghold no. 3 in Coining Department to be cleaned daily instead of weekly.
Declares 26 Apr. a holiday at Mint, in keeping with Queen Victoria's proclamation that this be observed as 'a day of Humiliation and Prayer.'
Announces appointment of Charles Elouis to superintendent of bullion office at Sydney branch mint, effective 1 May 1854. R. F. Suft will replace Elouis as registrar and accountant in Mint office. Charles Sterry will take Suft's former position as senior clerk. E. L. J. Ridsdale is appointed, subject to [one year] probation, to junior clerk and assistant assayer.