attention
containing
the views
of
the mast influential body connected with commerce in bhina. The British Minister
therefore
مارا
seems the person most competent
öffer
advice
ow
questions of detail
CHF
- relating to the general trade outside of
this bookny
-27.
I must however observe that I -totully differ from the Memorialists in their recommendation (Section 36) for
• altering the Standard of silver. fixed -by the Treaty (article 35). The Memorialists
-seem to me to labor under a
of ideas as
confusion
to what constitutes the
Standard of a currency and the coins
'in
Mise
The latter, whatever their value
denomination, should be all referable
to that standard, and in a
where so
many
272
Country
dollars
але
in
wise
in bhina, and which popepes
Government comage, there can
mo
دين
be no better
standard, or one more calculated to
ar
give fixity and certainty to the amount
of
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duties payable, than the Chinese standard of Haitwan Sycee. Thus when the Memorialists complain that at tecchow Mexican dollars
Avere
till
lately received at a premium of six per cent. but that latterly the premium has
been
mo
raised to ten, it is evident that
injustice
was done as the Haik wan
Standard by which the value
of those.
dollars should be decided is not six
but ten
per
cent higher in purity