smight be discharged
Either in Gold
Silver
but after that revocation
will only
be dischargeable
in silver
and thus for
the more valuable
comparing at a loss
Merchant
On the first point
suggestions have
Various
been made
I will only
mention
two. It has been
suggested that the next
Proclamation
should declare
that a
certain
quality
of
Chinese
cash
should
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be
a
legal
tender
at
a certain amount (say payment of any
5 dollars)
at the rate of (say)
1200 cash for a dollar.
It has been also
suggested that
a
token
silver coinage, representing
subdivisions of
a
dollar,
which (like
the shilling
in England)
should be a legal tender
for small payments, at a rate slightly