use to small payments
and to prevent any fresh conveyance to
importation of it by
individuals until such time as Her Majesty's Government may see their way to dispensing with it altogether. Besides
that the rate of "1/4 harmonises with the
Dollar and cent system
it is another recommendation of it that being seeing that it is
only
about equal to the
bullion value of the
Shilling, the Chinese
will find it easy
to understand. ?!
It shall bear a different
value in another part
of Her Majesty's
Dominion. But a new
community of the Colony, from national system
if
all prices
is to treat coins merely
as bullion (30 much silver),
I protest if they
It is petty.
repeal a percentage
fixing (Rebates The Protect
declaring the
rate at which the British Money
shall be paid to the troops. We cannot
fix one value, relative to British Money
for the troops, and
at the same time
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Can be induced
to adopt any European
system's would be more
likely to acquiesce in this
rating them any higher
one
The Duke of Newcastle
conceives that this Department
has no
question
to do with the
rate at which the Dollar should
be paid to the Military and
other services whose remuneration
for is provided for by vote of
Colonial parliament, a question which is referred to in
a different rate. same
value.
I think that the Section of correspondence
now
particularly
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