is said to have been bégalised there according to the Manager of the Oriental Bank, but I

notothi

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cannot find anything authoritation or as to the Frade dollar at the Stmits,

I should doubt the expediency of going

Ihave subrepo found out that a Proclamation of January 1874 Lis Clarke has lega both the Year th

the Governor mach latitude as to declaring bother : the hal

this or that dollar of the requisite fineness

which should

tralne; but the adoption of a system

mitive the advantages _ of excluding mutilated coin of a well-defined basis as to weight, finenestrals, _ toft comitting deveral Cources Finpping would be

a wound improvement on the farcount state Fiff is, I would be accepted by the public_

20120/5/74

kower to do and Ordinance 40 In the shouldin reported it spec

beeporing their to the revsing Iwould omit "favorable candination it in a maller for them to deal with others.

ut lake = "favoralle

if they do

news we that be in a

fcatething to a shrub

ov

f

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exterin po a ferlife intermenelle astirring

Mr. Meade.

In reply to a

question which

understood from Mr. Grahan, you wished for further information as to-

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the Treasury (ggrofib) issued Regulations tatted

(9955/66) 20 October 1866 respecting the weight & fineness of the Hongkong dollar, which were recessary under nordinance 2.32041882 to wake the Bene ligal, but I cannot find that they were was ever authoritatively declared to be legal tender in Hongthing:

A

Coinage

of

& in the canebook the Order in enneil Aug Jani163 (given at p. 22423 of printed presser Kerlugin) in still spoken of as

regulating the currency of

the Colony-

Mirt

8598/66 it would appear that the Aompton Foller was of a slightly has value than the use

Itandard of the Mexican Foller bat of Guivalent inture to the actual Mexican Dollar as generally found in cirentation in

FRR 22/5/74.

China

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