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they should do so that I have detained the Report for that purpose.
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Accordingly I requested Mr Thresser the Manager of the leading local Bank, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank - to obtain in such manner as he thought most expedient, the opinions of his colleagues, and I now inclose copy of his reply, and of letters from the Managers of the Oriental, the Comptoir d'Escompte, and the Chartered Mercantile Banks. I regret however that persons necessarily so familiar with the laws regulating the supply and demand for coin and bullion in this part of the world, have not been more liberal in imparting detailed information. Yet even so, as will presently appear, that which they do give is highly important.
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Enclosure No.3. 44. I likewise transmit copy of a letter addressed by Mr. MacKenzie to my predecessor Sir Hercules Robinson, who took so prominent a part in establishing the Mint - Sir Hercules attached so much importance to that letter that he favored me with a copy in time to lay it before the Commission of Inquiry, which I was the more anxious to do as he mentioned