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and the inhabitants of Western nations have caused these exceptional circumstances
and the early hope of the hint
to
cease,
really being a success is to induce the Chinese
Government to consider coining from our Mint as
good
a
medium of payment by it as Haikwan
Sycee
or even to induce it to employ Mint itself. Probably this is difficult of accomplishment but if it could be effected it would confer a benefit on Commerce, on the Chinese Empire, and
on
the Government itself for from what the Assayer of our Mint Mr. Rockley said at Canton, the loss of silver involved in the clumsy process of converting bullion or dollars into Haikwan Sycee is more
than the charge at which the minting
could be done.
(signed) W.H.Rennie.
Auditor General
Hongkong, 16th December, 1881.
(True Copy).
J.W. Murray
Colonial Secretary