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An Act to amend Act XIX of 1861 (to provide for a Government Paper Currency). WHEREAS under Section 8 of Act XIX of 1861 (to provide for a Government Paper Currency), the promissory notes of the Government of India issued under that Act are payable only at the office or offices, or agencies of issue of the city or town from which they are severally issued, and at the Presidency town of the Presidency within which such city or town is situated: And whereas it is expedient to empower the Governor General of India in Council to declare that, for the purposes of the said Act, any such city or town, other than a Presidency town, shall be deemed to be situated within such Presidency as he shall from time to time declare by notification in the Gazette of India; It is hereby enacted as follows: -