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PROCLAMATION.
With the desirable object of preventing Disputes and laying down some defined system regarding the circulat- in medium is this settlement, his Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, is pleased to promulgate the following brief Rules, which are to be considered applicable to all com- mon bazaar Purchases and Barter, Hire, &c. &c. but not to interfere with, or affect what may be termed Mercantile Transactions; and are to be in force on the Island of Hongkong, pending the gracious pleasure of her Majesty's the Queen of Great Britain.
1st. The following coins are to be defined legal ten- ders --Spanish, Mexican, and other Dollars, and their component parts. Company Rupees and their component parts; "Cash," or the copper coin current in China.
2 Dollars of whatever denomination or device, and whether whole or chopped, are to circulate at par with reference to each other, always, providing that they
are of the proper weight and standard.
3rd. Two and one (2 quarter Company's Rupees shall
be considered equal to one Dollar
One Rupee and two Annas (or half a quarter) equal
to half a Dollar and half a Rupee and one anna (or nine annas) equal to one quarter of a Dollar.
4th. Twelve hundred Cash (1200 copper coin)
shall be equal to one Dollar.
Six hundred (600) to half a Dollar.
Three hundred (300) to one quarter of a Dollar. Five hundred and thirty three (533) to one Company's Rupees
Two hundred and sixty six (266) to half a Rupee. One hundred and thirty three (133) to one quarter of a Rupee.
5th. Any other coins whether British or Foreign, not enumerated in the preceding Rules, are not to be deemed a legal tender, but they can of course be sold, or otherwise bartered in the bazaar, according to their intrinsic value.
6th Cash (copper coin) at the rate laid down in the 4th Rule, will be sold to any individual requiring it in sums of not less than fifty Dollars, on application to the Treasurer and Secretary to her Britannic Majesty's Superintendents of Trade &c.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN,
Dated at Hongkong Government House, this 29th day of March, 1842.
(Signed) HENRY POTTINGER, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superin- tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
By order
CHAS. E. STEWART, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer,