10.
on the 23rd January last, to meet cutai'r payments amounting to about £ 5,000, urgently required by
The Chinese Contuctors for Public Works - Subsequently, when the Deposit, which consisted of 100 Sovereigns, had to be repaid, and the same description of
Coin was demanded.
a
by the Payee,
purchase of 36 Sovereigns at
effected (the market
5 each was
rate was then # 52 per Sovereign) and the remainder at the
Government rak of. 4 4 2 2
In further explanation of the present subject, I beg
respectfully to inform you
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that so for back as the 6 December last, I advised the lak Treasury Commission that had already shown
experience had
that in the disposal of
me
any
amount of weighed Dollars
by small payments in counted Dollars, a deficiency in number
would incitably occur, -.
-from the fact that the greater portion of Dollars in any large number which poises the Scales, weigh individually more than the established rate of 7.1.7. When a Somewhat increased deficiencs
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