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Coin legal tender, recites proclamation shewing that Mexicans are legal tender, but does not define whether chopped or otherwise
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Chartered Mercantile Bank of India London & China, Hong Kong, 27th April, 1877.
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The Honble J. Gardiner Austin C.M.G. Colonial Secretary.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the Chinese Petition to The Government on the subject of currency dated 31st ulto, and to tender thanks for the opportune opportunity afforded of expressing my views thereon.
The practice of chopping "Vollare is as the memorialists state common throughout the south of China and there may