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it is alleged that
then supply
of mexican dollars, which alone are legal tender in Hong Kong, is, owing to the circumstances of Mexico, very uncertain, and that during the Chinese Export season
who it runs to sharpt
as to cause inconvenience, whiche
it
is feared may become munch more considerable in future
·
(11), it appears that in the absence
of any legal provision to the contrary, the Bankers & everchants
of Hong Kong
obliged & accept
coin purporting to be mexicandollars
A but so
by Chinese "chops"
defaced
as to be milecomumenble.
"there" chops" being the works stamped rudes
on the dollar
by the different Hougs & Banks ostensibly for the purpose of authenticating the coin, but i really, it is feared, for the purpose of gain,
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as ach
dollar bears, not one or two
well-known Chops, but so
is
marry that no one decipherable, and each chop
is to managed as to detach a small bit of the com. Uuse chopperd coins are received in thong Kong by weight, but
they
are
fo
covered with
dirt & bits of paper struck on
to them
that wh
and that when sent
as
they anally