subsidiary Coinage in the Colo-
Colony
renders it possible for bankers
and other holders of small
to hoard them, and to issue...
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suggested by Assistant Commissary
General Shaw, and which
Coins
His Lordship very rightly de-
your
them to the public
at a
premium,
Their Lordships feel sure
that
precautions, as stated in
letter of the 26th ulto
Their Lordships request
that Lord Canning will agree
with them that a
grave
inconvenience is imposed upon
the public, and such as would
justify this Board, however
reluctantly, in taking some
such measures for the supply
of the Chest at Hongkong, as are
suggested
They will in consequence
request
you
will
move Lord Canning to send instructions
by the earliest opportunity, that
the
Chest at Hongkong may
be
supplied with a
sufficient
amount of subsidiary Coinage
to meet the urgent require-
ments notified in the letter