9.
discount on the most depreciated kind & coin in which they may legally
of
be hand. In the same manner — shopkeepers expecting to be paid in this depreciated coin, which they Love afterwards to cechange for Chamish dollars, increase their
is
charges accordingly; so that the price of the necessaries of life inevitably roused. This is sensibly ough felt when for the officially reclared equivalent to one hundred dollars paid into the Bank. ostain a receipt for only ninity-two dollars; it is equally true, if not equally sensitt, that we lose the Lime proportional amount m all ther transactions.
we
any
8. We would not enter into further discussion on the monetary
we
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eyetem of the Colony thou is necessary to'ishlain our cau; and we hope that have now said iufficient to shew Mainly the grievance under which we labor _ It is quite clear that Jovernment Proclamation cannot make ninety two cents, one hundred uts; and if the Coin given as the equivalent of a dollar will Amchace
Gwelfth less of the necessaries of life than the money in real
which it represents, the
1
currency result is the same as
if our salaries
had been nominally as well own actually reduced by one twelfth_
how come
4. We
to the remedy which we would respectfully propoce-
10. We suggest that on dalaries should be paid in what is really