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Memo: suggesting that the Managers of
the Bank's should confer together and bee
whether collectively,
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whether
one or more
of Enclosure A
2nd March 1868
of them could not by thin control of the financial operations of trade here matte
concem. I also mentioned
the Mint a paying
the most obvious conditions that would:
probably be required by the Government
from purities willing to undertake the
and expense of the Maint.
charge un 5. The
"The receipt this any of Your Grace's despatch N. 14 of the 25" Jamuny last is I fear adverse even to the blight expectations to which I ulluded of Her Majesty's
The asmny being able to do something more Пласти
hereafter than hitherto for the Maint, and I admit the principles by which the AD
Enclosie N.2.
Enclo
5
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transactions of Her Majesty's Treasury
are
quided for supplying the Treasury bhests alewad to be miquestional
sound as
enclosed in
CH
explained in Mor Haunt's letter Your Space's dispatch of the
25th January last. b. There are
five Banks here. The Oriental - Hongkong and Shanghai, - the Chartered Mercantile, - the bhautered tank
of India, Australia and bhina, and the
French Compton d' Escompte. The enclosed Meem?
sent to the local Managers
was
of all, and I enclose replies from
the last three. A reply on behalf of the Oriental Bank is promised from Shanghai
whither the representative of that Corporation in lohina has recently gone,
whilst the