HC Deb 17 July 1856 vol 143 c974
MR. G. A. HAMILTON

said, he would beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when it was likely that the Report of the Commissioners on the Decimal Coinage question would be presented?

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEOUER

said, the Commissioners had taken various steps for the purpose of obtaining information on the subject referred to them, but they would not be in a position to make a Report in sufficient time to admit of its being laid on the table during the course of the present Session.