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which has already brou put before with the accection of the Treasury, whereby the Colonial Government itself should undertake the circulation of these crates against a bullion reserve! my duty to point
been you ...
"It now becours
out that, in the present state of the Colonial Revenue, the demands
of
upon it being
2.0
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3 pressing, Sony
so conflicting, decay alicest s
bewildering, the heavy expose of ivering and maintaining notes is out of the question. The inconveniences
COTAKAL.
will remain, but it is the unanimou
opicion of theve best able to judge, that
they way
be uah diminished by
liberal and constaut
silver coin
3.
of coin, will not alarm either the Colonial Office or the Feasury. A nuest be clearly
borne in mind that it is
ble to
is impossible
flood Hongkong with there coins, as Colony
O
like 2 lauritiuw or Aylou night
be flooded with them. As fast as they arrive, they
ate
bought up and eat to
rapidly
to be
China, where they
becoming a popular and useful.
Coinage,
the only
one, except in copper;
that there is. There is not the least wi
sycupton of a ceration of the demand,
· of any limit to the aw mount of coin
that could be disposed of.
The
to avoid the inconvenience
a.
way
Consequent
supply of subsidiary
I burst therefore, that the Requisitions
I shall have to make for this description.
or a
only
scarcity of suall
Chinese
coin here at sich times
New Year
reserve
lo
te is always to have
fall back upon.
4. Two
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of