the insurance, freight, shipping charges, and every expense on those coins should be paid in England; and in the hope that Her Majesty's Government will sanction these proposals and to avoid any delay on the score of funds, a sum of £8,000 in Bills at six months to be forthwith remitted to the Agent General for Crown Colonies.
1. That concurrently with the passing of the new Proclamation, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury should issue instructions as to the rate at which the dollar is to be issued to the Military and Naval Services serving in China; or if possible, what would be better, a China rate of pay and allowances for those services be announced in dollars, in the same manner that the pay and allowances of the Troops serving in India are fixed in Rupees.
Also that the Postal receipts be accommodated to the currency of the Colony by the issue of postage stamps and by the payment here of the British rates in dollars at 4/2. It is considered that legislation will be necessary to effect this, and that it be within the province of the local Legislature (a point which I do...