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may be some utility in the system, in enabling receivers to identify coins as having been examined and found good by certain Banks, but in view of the fact that the coins are actually "chopped" to such an extent as to destroy altogether the identity of the Dollars, a not unnatural suspicion arises as to the purity of the motive for such custom.
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From enquiries I have made I learn that in the native Banks and shops where money changes hands to a very large extent, a recognised system prevails of "chopping" so that pieces of silver are brought away from each coin, the proceeds of which chopping are periodically divided amongst the employees of such Banks or shops - all getting a proportion and regarding it as a legitimate perquisite.
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This system of "sweating" of course eventually leads to the destruction of the coins and an inspection of some specimens of what are called "Five Dollar Dollars" will, I venture to think, make it manifest that compliance with the prayer of the memorialists is undesirable - especially bearing in mind the fact that "Dollars moderately chopped are taken freely - while those which are so much damaged as to be uncurrent in the Colony are always saleable at a fair market for shipment to places where they are current, or for melting.
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The question is where to draw the line of demarcation between
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