10104. Hong Kong.
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C. F.
#Godz
162_10/hrd?
Sirs,
3 NOV 1864
Council Office, Whitehall,
2 Nov. 1864.
I am directed by the Lord President of the
Council to transmit to you
the enclosed Order of Her Majesty in
Council, of the 1st instant, approving the Draft of a Proclamation fixing 4/3
as the better rate at which the Mexican Dollar or other Silver Dollar of equivalent value is to be issued to H.M. Troops in Hong Kong and to dependencies,
and I am to request that you will be pleased to lay the same
before the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
The Under Secretary of State,
&c., &c., &c.
Colonial Office