No.118.
Ang Kong
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Government Notification
Tenders will be received at this office, on or before the 18th July, for the purchase of five, ten and twenty cent pieces, to the amount of £5000, in the following proportions:
12,000 of 10 cent pieces.
6,000 of 20 cent pieces.
22,136 of 5 cent pieces.
To tender for a sum of less than Five hundred Dollars will be entertained.
By Command,
(Sd.) J. Gardiner Austin
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Colonial Secretary
Hongkong, 20th June 1876
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Copy Treasury 28/10/76.
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Sir,
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From the correspondence following this despatch between my Department and the Board of Incoming Mail, copy of which has accompanied my despatch No. 125 of the 26th ult., you will have learnt that I am now prepared for the issue to the Public of the Subsidiary silver coinage.
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