Companies recommending increased issue of One Dollar notes -

Colony.

in this

2.

me to be

one

This subject appears to be of pressing importance.

: The present issue is quite inadequate, and the silver (chiefly Mexican) dollars that are current in the Colony are so mutilated, and so liable to be counterfeited and debased by the Chinese, that the possession of them is nearly always accompanied with

3.

loss.

In the transactions of the larger firms, which transact their business through their compradores, the present state of things may not be very seriously felt; but to householding soldiers, sailors, and servants, the present state of the currency - the dollar - is a constant source both of inconvenience and of positive loss.

The memorial from five companies at Hongkong, and the reports of the Naval and Military Authorities, which I enclose, show clearly the difficulties which they experience in the proper payment of their men; and I am

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Companies recommending increased issue of One Dollar notes -

Colony.

in this

2.

me to be

one

This subject appears to be of pressing importance.

: The present issue is quite inadequate, and the silver (chiefly Mexican) dollars that are current in the Colony are so mutilated, and so liable to be counterfeited and debased by the Chinese, that the possession of them is nearly always accompanied with

3.

loss.

In the transactions of the larger firms, which transact their business through their compradores, the present state of things may not be very seriously felt; but to householding soldiers, sailors, and servants, the present state of the currency - the dollar - is a constant source both of inconvenience and of positive loss.

The memorial from five companies at Hongkong, and the reports of the Naval and Military Authorities, which I enclose, show clearly the difficulties which they experience in the proper payment of their men; and I am

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