Rejoices at JS's new position. Asks how to send two official documents safely to India.
Rejoices at JS's new position. Asks how to send two official documents safely to India.
Accepts dinner invitation to meet Mr. [Haufmann?]. Problems with JH's back.
Comments on various kinds of scales for measuring distances.
CT's memorandum on 'Superannuation Question.' JH argues that money or rights given to any Mint employee for his services should not be revocable but 'should be absolutely his property.'
Comments on which rights should be forfeited when public servants are dismissed.
Distance scales to be used on Ordnance Survey maps.
Requests permission to pay Mint expenses from special account until Parliamentary grant becomes 'available.'
Please confirm that duties of appointment, which JH and CT discussed today, will permit residing outside London.
E. W. Ward's assistant Mr. Watt, proposed supervisor of bullion office in Sydney mint, volunteered for military expedition to Constantinople. JH asks Treasury to choose replacement.
[Marked 'Private.'] List of Cambridge men that JH considers eligible to be moderators and examiners for Mathematical Tripos.
[Marked 'Private.'] Asks CT to submit JH's name to Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon] for position on Cambridge board of examiners, provided this duty does not require residence in London.
Proposes eliminating small annual sum paid for rent of Victualling office by making one payment for thirty-year lease. [JH note on verso: Calculations relating to 'State of Gold in Mint.']
Five-year apprenticeships of Henry Finch and F. R. Brande qualify them to succeed [William] Buckle in coining department. Salaries for Mint employees.
Further discussion of salary for F. R. Brande after promotion.
Governor of Malta [Sir William Reid] requests £500 in copper coins. Mint does not have enough.
[Marked 'Extract.'] Asks Treasury to define position of J. [J. S.?] Wyon at Mint.
Encourages Treasury to maintain distinction between temporary and permanent workers at Mint.
Charles Elouis requests return of contributions (£180) to Superannuation Fund over 19 years of Mint service, in preparation for Elouis's appointment as superintendent of bullion office in Sydney mint.
Recommends R. F. Suft to succeed Charles Elouis as registrar and accountant of Royal Mint. Recommends Charles Sterry to replace Suft as senior clerk in Mint office.
Recommends that former gas plant at Mint be maintained and kept in reserve, in case of interruptions in commercial supply from Ratcliffe Gas Company. Current prices of gas and coal.