and uniformity of weight and standard
Combined; as in Course
time to render the
repeated weighing of small parcels of dollars
necessary,
and these
I believe
advantages the present Hong Kong
dollar is better I
calculated to produce
than
One Dollar entirely
different from the
average
recognised.
Further the loss
in number would
the
Amount at least to $7.50 per mille and effectually prevent
conversion of Mexican dollars, I append as Table showing The details of the dollar
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as at present coined, and those proposed by the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury which I trust
may
form This Excellency
Governor,
may
deem it desirable.
to adopt in what appears.
a
position
most-
"difficult
I have taken the
opinion
here
of the Bankers on the subject, and
their views are fairly
expressed in
extract from a letter from Mc Kean to Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank
"I am decidedly of