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61In section ii of the same regulation it is stated that " the useof the sicca weight of 179'666, hitherto employed for the receiptof bullion at the mint, being in fact the weight of the Moorshedabadrupee of the old standard, which was assumed as the sicca currencyof the Honorable Company's Provinces of Bengal, Behar and.Orissa, shall be discontinued, and in its place the following unit,to be called the tola, shall be introduced, which, from its immediateconnection with the rupee of the Upper Provinces and ofMadras and Bombay, will easily and speedily become universalthrough the British territories." The tola or sicca weight to be equal to one hundred andeighty grains troy, and the other denominations of weight to bederived from this unit, according to the following scale, viz. :8 rattis = l masha = 15 troy grains.12 mashas=l tola =180 troy grains.80 tolas (sicca weight)= 1 seer = 2^ Ibs. troy.40 seers = 1 mun, or bazar maund = 100 Ibs. troy."This system of weights was ordered to be adopted at the Mintsand Assay Offices of Calcutta and Saugor, respectively, in theadjustment and verification of all weights for Government orpublic purposes, sent thither for examination.The Mysore mint, which was abolished in 1843, was removedfrom Mysore to Bangalore in 1833, in which year it appears fromthe following letter to the Madras Government to have been theintention to have the copper coinage supplied by the Madrasmint.SIR,COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE,Bangalore, 23rd August 1833.I am directed by the Commissioners for the affairs of Mysoreto explain that, in making the application contained inmy letter of the 20th June last, the Commissioners acted underan impression that an ample stock of copper coin received fromEurope might probably be in store at Madras, and disposable forthe use of Mysore.As this however is not the case, and as the Commissionersfind that they can have the coin made at Bangalore (a course ofproceeding which does not appear to them liable to any seriousobjection) on more advantageous terms than those on which itcould be supplied from Madras, they direct me to state that itis not their intention to avail themselves of the offer, which theEight Honorable the Governor in Council has had the goodnessto make to them of the Madras mint on this occasion.I have, &c., &c.,In 1833 the abolition of the Madras mint was recommendedby the Calcutta Mint Committee, and the following extract froma letter, dated 29th January 1834, shows the feeling of the Courtof Directors on this subject: