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Meeting Department in the Honghing Mint, and intimating that these Gentlemen will not be entitled to any salary previous to the date of their Embarkation for the Colony.
Mr Kinder has written to me at the same time observing that he thinks it most desirable that these officials should be allowed one month's full salary in return for a month's regular attendance at the mint provided they succeed in that time in mastering the numerous details of the important duties which will devolve upon them on their arrival in the Colony.
I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Most Obedient Servants
have the benefit of a month's training at the Royal Mint in London before leaving England. I was in hopes that appointments of this class might have been filled from amongst the officers employed in the Assaying and Melting Departments of the Royal Mint, but as this arrangement has not been feasible, I recommend that the gentlemen selected at home would take the place...