Very expert need on this account,

Leaf

the payments being so small in amount.

Signers & Wacker

Colonel

14th October 1883

CRE.

Page 281

Enclosure 4

Memorandum on the subject of flour notes

A memorial or petition on behalf of five Public Companies employing a considerable number of labourers, was presented to the Governor, complaining of the insufficient number of dollar notes in circulation, which was the cause of a grievance severely felt by nearly all persons in the Colony and especially by those who had to pay large numbers of workmen.

The number of dollar notes in circulation is $226, They are issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai...

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