516 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH DECEMBER, 1872.
(Copy.)
Minute of an Assay of the New Mexican Dollar held at the Heng-mow Customs Bank at Canton, on
Wednesday, the 13th March, 1872.
Present:
算
· BYRON BRENAN, Esquire, Acting Interpreter at Her Majesty's Consulate at Canton; Expectant Prefect FANG-KUNG-HWUI, and
YEH-TZü-CHÜN, Keeper of the Customs Treasury.
The Chinese Assayers obtained the following results:
Twenty-eight new Mexican Dollars weighed before being melted, The same after having been melted and refined,
Loss of weight,
From the above it appears that One hundred new Mexican Dollars
weigh
And that One hundred Taels weight of new Mexican Dollars are equal
in pure Sycee to
Tls. M. C.
20 2 18
31010
5
1 5
2 1 0
Tls. m.
C.
72
3
Add allowance for residuum of Silver,
89 6 3 3 7
90
0 0
Or, the New Mexican Dollar consists of 9 parts pure Silver and 1 Alloy, and in order to hundred Taels of pure Sycee, it will be necessary to pay Taels 111.1.1 in New Mexican Dollars. pay This acknowledged and signed in quintuplicate in English and Chinese, at the British Consulate at Canton, on the 18th of March, 1872.
One
(Signed), BYRON BRENAN.
(Signed), Signatures of two Chinese Officials.
An old Mexican Dollar before being melted weighs After being melted,
Loss in weight,
Tls. m. c. C.
0 7 1 5
0 6 3 9
0 0 7 6
Tls. m.
One New Mexican Dollar before being melted weighs After being melted,.
0 7
0
6
324
3 00 00
C.
3
8
0 0 7 5
Loss in weight,
Therefore the new Mexican Dollar weighs of a Tael more than the old, and contains of a Tael more of pure Sycee.
One hundred new Mexican Dollars contain, in pure Sycee, One hundred old
do.
Difference in One hundred Dollars,
Tis. m. C.
64 8 0
do.
63 9 0
9 0
old Mexican Dollars.
Or, One hundred new Mexican Dollars are equal to 101
Therefore the new Mexican Dollar is within a fraction of 14 per cent better than the old.
True Copy,
WALTER C. HILLIER.
PROCLAMATION. (Translation.)
Jui, Grand Secretary of the Wên Huatien, President of the Board of War, and Governor General of the Two Kwang Provinces; Chang, Vice-President of the Board of War, and Governor of Kwang-tung; Ch'ung, of the 2nd Official Grade, Superintendent of Customs for the Yüeh (Two Kwang) Provinces-