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From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 February 1851
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/88
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Treasury commissioners will not authorize changes to Mint Board, mint office, or assay office until solicitors can determine legal ramifications. Changes in Melting department must await counter-proposal from G. W. G. Mathison. JH's plan to maintain other departments on present footing is approved.
Offers arguments and evidence to support GM's protest to Charles Wood, Chancellor of Exchequer, on 7 Feb. 1851, against plan to abolish Mint refinery.
Asks approval for proposed changes in WW's revised contribution to JH's Admiralty Manual.