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3. In the letter under nement, the subjects of Exchange is mixed up with,
and much more considered, than, the
wholly subject of currency. The two are distinct. With the former Government servants have but little to do, nine-tenths of Government Salaries being spent in the kony, no would lows on Exchange. bein
an understood accident of then position, be a reasonable ground of ::mplaint by them. It must moreover, be borne in mind that the wil represented by the Memorialits is not that of a currency which has become mappropriate, and requires aitonation, but of a change in a curency which was nuncccicary, as
the currency formly established, under the Lanction of long suston-
Aself
was
4. In a furnished
paper formelid come time
back by W= Imith, it is brought to the notice of the boverna, as a proof of the efficiency of the Commissariat Department, that hits Bill transactions the exchenses
by of the Department were defrayed. These transactions are now shown to give "a loss to Government of from six to seven per cent.
5. It is stated that the quievance of the Memorialists is of a negative or
character"." of its positive
imaginary and real nature,
numerous instances
the
might be adduced were
of
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very
practical one quoted in the Memorial insufficient, wherein the Bank receipt for $92 is shown to be the 20 uivalent
the payment of $100 in British money- But to give one within my oron knowledge Lately in a shop in Fictoria, $5/1⁄2 asked for an article of one who, being immediately thereafter recognized"
was
as
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