Land
gard
Board of Treasury für the settlement of the question, contained in
your
the
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letter of
June last, together with your subsequent letter of the 17th October last
drawing the Duke of
Newcastle's attention to those
proposals and requesting to
be informed of His Grace's
views
on
the subject.
2. The proposals
of their Lordships referred to were as
follows:
that the existing Proclamations
regulating the Currency of
Hong Kong should be repealed
by
Her
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by Her Majesty in Council,
and a new Order in Council
and Proclamation issued, declaring the Silver Dollar of certain
weight and fineness to be the
sole current coin and legal tender,
and directing the public accounts of the Colony to be kept in Dollars and cent,
and obligations at present
expressed in British
currency
to be discharged in Dollars
at the rate of 1 Dollar
...
6. 472. The Duke of
Newcastle
agrees
with
the late Board of Treasury
that Her Majesty's Government
ought to abandon the existing
System: