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be
(from which This Excellency may enabled to judge of the capabilities and merits of the above mentioned institution); I am induced to move His Excellency to be pleased to authorize the recognition
· of the Japan Trade dollar as a
tender in this Colony.
In
legal
making this request,
would submit that I am not without
precedent elsewhere, for it is but a
few
years since the Government of the
Straits Settlements were
declare the Japan
pleased to
Silver
Yen
issued by
the Imperial Japanese Mint a legal
tender in those settlements; likewise the -Chinese Authorities in the adjacent provinces of Kwangtung and Jotien.
What the t
have
officially recognized that coin.
The Japanese silver
your.
thus acknowledged by the neighbouring British Colony, and Whinese provinces, had a standard weight of 416 grains choy,
or a
weight equal to that of the old Hongkong dollar, and of slightly greater standard weight than the oMexican dollar. Subsequently, when a Foreign Government decided to issue a
dollar
of a
Trade
a standard weight of 420
graines Droy; the Japanese Government
were disinclined to allow their coins to
- be inferior to similar coins issued by
other Governments either as ·regards. fineness or weight, therefore the issue
of Silver Yen from the Imperial