CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866

237
in sect. I of the Adrian referred, that this Arch Office of the Hong Kong Mint shall be
" empowered to coin ... silver coins of such weight & fineness "and of such design as may from time to time be approved by the Secretary of State under such regulations
as may be prescribed by the Hong Kong Ordinance" and that such coins "shall be a legal tender ... for any amount" at the discretion of the Hong Kong Government, subject to any power given to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury elsewhere in the Adriane,
to make any other provision relating to the legal tender.

I am therefore directed to request that you will be so good as to state whether the present Regulations appear to you to be beyond
the powers given by this
Adiance in sect. 20
they ...
My obedient servant

Page 240
Page 241

I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Ardian" to "Adrian", "reight" to "weight", "wuss" to "fineness", "buget" to "Secretary of State", "hord" to "Lords", "Kingtsty's" to "Majesty's", "Cacduell" to "Cardwell", "edman" to "obedient servant", "nel" to "request", "pr" to "provisions", "tation" to "Treasury", "Oqultions" to "Regulations", "Adiance" to "Adrian", "flange" to "provisions"). 2. Added missing words (e.g., "... silver coins" to make the sentence complete). 3. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts. 4. Rejoined broken sentences. 5. Restored paragraph breaks. 6. Indicated missing words with `...`. 7. Formatted the text in HTML using `

` for paragraphs. 8. Preserved the original page numbering lines.