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they
are ab
willing to accept the
Hongkong dollars in payment of Duties as the Mexican. They might indeed
be held bound to do so under their
different
Treaties with Foreign Towers
which stipulate equally that all
foreign
cain shall pap current in "Japan, and I have not heard of any instance, of their having declined the Hongkong dollar. On the point however of its current circulation, I should observe
that the use
as curr
urrency,
of storeign
has not yet
coin in
been
Japan effected
by the various enactments, issued with
"This view, as the people prefer their
our
the
one,
coinage to any foreign japanese Government not re
and
not unnaturally
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shrink
from the resistance they would encounter, if they endeavoured to make
the acceptance of foreign coin compulsory at a fixed rate upon their people.
With the latter, such foreign as is current among foreigners trading.
coin
to their country, is always acceptable, but bullion, and its value
it is
ао
regarded
composed with native cain, is liable
you
are aware
to
execepive fluctuations. The perponice Government are doring all
in
their power, to equalize the value of native and foreign coin, and.
ता
they endeavour to promote the circulation.
of the latter, by receiving it as duties, In this respect they have proved
thumselves more
liberal than the
CH
e foreigners,