: would he feel justified
in subjecting the holders
of the British
currency
now current under Royal
proclamation, and the
payers of taxes
who have
received legally
now
the same,
in
she
to the
loss as well as inconvenience
which he fears the
measure referred to would
occasion to such persons.
If the public interest
compels Her Majesty's
Government to abolish or
alter the legal valuation
of the coin introduced
from
Britain into this Colony, it should be observed
and so introduced the Colony entirely by legislation Government
Agency, it is only just
that the Government
rather than individuals
should bear
any
loss from
depreciation attending such
a measure. As regards the Colonial Secretary's
Minute furnished to the Department in the year
1858, that a large proportion
of the local revenue is levied
under a certain decision
of the Courts of Law, in Dollars,
while
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