In reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
2204
RECEIVED
MAR 6 1872
247
Treasury Chambers. 5th March 1872
166
62
Hetton.
Sir,
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to inform you.
That they have considered the proposal made in your letter of the 2nd February that the Crown supply of Agents should undertake the subsidiary coinage to be provided for Hong Kong, the Colony taking the profit and defraying any Costs of redemption.
I am to request you to state