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suggestion that the weight & composition of it, if indeed it would not be an improvement, Mexican Dollar - the new standard of value to make some similar enactment, in the case in Hong Kong. It should be defined, & that the weight & composition of Hong Kong coinage has not been defined in any of the Ordinances legalizing its circulation since this "Colony"; - the Reasoning argument, I presume being that if it is unnecessary to specify the weight & composition of the standard coin, it is less necessary to specify the weight & Composition of token coins. It is hardly worthwhile to test the value of the above quoted statement by referring to the Precedents in detail, but I may instance the Nova Scotia Currency Act, based on which, in making Mexican (Dollars) legal tender, requires them to be of the full weight of 416 grains, & containing 373 grains of pure silver.

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that there is no

uniformity in carrying out this discretion.

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Mr Kinder

D. 2ons in other places

My impression had been that Specimen coins had been sent to Hong Kong.

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of the by letter, and their reluctance to tell us in

want to know.

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