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Thang haw, November 5th 1856.
We, the American merchants of Shaughai, have read with much interest your Excellency's recent communication to the British merchants of this port, inviting an expression of their views with regard to the establishment of a mint at Hongkong, and intimating your own partiality for that measure as a means of relieving this community from the evils produced by the defect of the currency.
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