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only as it suited their immediate
Purpose.-
J
Forced
Samn therefore reluctantly
to conclude that so far as the success of the Mint depends
merely,
on any continuous support frour the Treasury or the Public the -experiment bus been played out,
whilst the cost of continuing to
maintain the establishment in a
expectation of something turning up to its advantage would be a beüthen improper to impose. ow the Colony
in its present financial constition, which latter Ivery frankly complained to the gentlernen who
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good,
-enough to assemble at my request
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on the 24th February. -
66.
Those, who are expected to --
maintain the Mint ought therefore-
as it appears to me to be also parties capable of taking such direct action in connection with the general Commercial operations of the Carst
de
might make the Hony Hong, coinage geverally known and received
of its intrinsic worth on a
a porn with the Mexican dollar. There
are
no parties except the Banks in a position to do this- though in-
consideration of the Public interests, which might be hereafter involved in some very possible future contingencies, Her Majesty's.