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that (ask ( [epper loin ) with be sold to any Individual sequiiny it in Jun not less 50 dollars, at the above mentioned rate, on asurer of Secretary of Her Majesty's Superintendent of Brade application to the Tri
In this Proclamation the Bollar and the East Instia Company's rupee are correctly adjusted to each other, with referena to the pure Silver which thon Coins respec= - tively contain.
In order to determine what her 1200 cash (Copper coin) core properly dumed the equivalent of a doller, it is necessary to advert to the monetury system and regulations of China.
be there all payments, in Gott and Selver are made by weight, of which weight the highest used in Money transactions is the sewing or Teil. A Mace is the tenth, a Jail, a Cunclusion the tenth of Le on tush, the tenth only Coin in a illace, and of on The of a land areen general use, in China, is the de or leash, a smode piew of Case Metal, pom formed a composition of lopper and twtenaque, on one side of which is marked the name of the Emperor's reign in which it was The reversi the name of the i sind, and car plare where it was cust.
It appears to have been intended that 1000 Le er leath should represent, and be equnt to, om Tail weight of fine silver, but from the quantity of this Coin Howun into Circulation by the government, and the pawstutent importation of it prom ther plans, especially toshin China, it is so much depreciated that 1200 (@ 1500 Cash are given on gchange for a Jail weight
In a communication from in the the Feueray of Johiin to the Emperor, m Your 1024, it is observed that it pus aleverys been the mule to pay the Militia in Corn, of the rate. of 1000 for a dout ofloor, in the Market, but now a Furt silver, Wilson, A being worth 1240 token, they operiènie. serious less prom this when they & shamp then loon for silver, with a view to the new ready harus mission of their pat The comedy proposed by to sustance. was that the Mint should
The Viceroy,