An Act to prevent the defacing of the current Coin of the Realm.
[20th August 1853.] WHEREAS Practice has arisen of defacing the Coin of the Realm by stamping the same for advertising Purposes, and bending the same, and it is expedient to make Provision for preventing the Coin from being so defaced and bent; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: