1. The punishment inflicted on the different offences specified in the Coinage Laws, do not seem to be adequate to the degree of enormity, in some instances; while in others, from being too severe, the law is not always put in execution. The sale of base Money (for instance) under the value it imports, is only punishable by a year's imprisonment; although in point of fact, it is well known, that the Sellers are the _Employers of the Coiners_; that with them this high offence originates, and but for them it would not have been committed: while the actual Coiners, who work for these Dealers merely as Journeymen, subject themselves to the punishment of Death. 2. Prosecutions under the stat. 8 & 9 W. III. _c._ 26, are at present limited to commence within three months. This may often defeat justice, as offences committed in the country frequently cannot be tried in less than four, five, and in some cases nearly six months. [-->] _The limitation to twelve months would remove the difficulty._ [There is no such limitation in the statutes of 37 & 38 of Geo. III. just alluded to.] 3. The words _Milled Money_ seemed necessary, in the minds of the makers of the act of 8 & 9 William III. _cap._ 26, to form the description of coin similar to the current Coin of the Realm; and that Act declares it to be felony to take, receive, pay, or put off _counterfeit milled Money_.--A considerable portion of counterfeit Coin is _cast_, and _not milled_. [-->] _The words_ counterfeit Money, Milled _or_ not Milled, _would remove the ambiguity._ 4. It does not appear that any provision is clearly made, or punishment inflicted, for the offence of _uttering base silver Money in exchange_, as well as in payment: except under _stat._ 8 and 9 Will. III. _cap._ 26, where the expression of _counterfeited milled money_ is used, the ambiguity of which has already been noticed. The words in the _stat._ 15 Geo. II. _c._ 28. are, "any person who shall utter or tender in payment," and it seems that the word _utter_ cannot be detached from the subsequent words, "in payment." [The partial remedy applied in this particular in the instance of counterfeit _foreign gold and silver coin_, under 37 Geo. III. _c._ 126, should be extended to _all_ cases of counterfeit money.]