to give directions to the Governor of Hong Kong accordingly.
Francof.
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The Chartered Mercantile Bank
Limited
27 Cannon Street, London E.C.
23rd
George & Hamilton Eng
Treasury Chamber
January 1863
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter N. 438 of the 19th instant in which you intimate that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are pleased to state, in answer to the representation made to their Lordships relative to the receipt of the notes of this Bank, at the Colonial Treasury and by the Collectors of Colonial revenue at Hong Kong, that "if their decision could be governed only by considerations regarding the credit and stability of the Bank, they readily admit that no exception could be taken to the receipt of the notes of the Bank at the Treasury of Hong Kong.
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