these coins will pass
current in
Japan,
I have the honor respectfully to request that Your Excellency may be pleased, deem it advisable, to refer
should you
the question to the Japanese
with
they
a view to
ascertaining
Authorities
whether
are inclined to admit the
Hongkong
Dollar I and its
(and
Subsidiary Coimage) into circulation,
and to receive it in payment of Custom House and other dues
in the same manner as the current ¡Mexican Dollar.
It will be seen that the
Hongkong dollar is a decimal faction superior in fineness to either the Bombay
or Mexican
39
Dollar
I have to
(Signed) Jas. M. Munay
C.
a. b. G.