to legalise the
You
is that
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on which
colony, point the opinion of the Governor has not yet apparently been obtained, and, secondly, in what way the Japanese Government would propose
to give effect to their
work
one
offer
to undertake the
of coining the "Yen" at the charge of
per cent. On this point, I would observe that this charge would appear to be the ordinary charge for the coinage of yen. So far as the Annual Reports of the Japanese Mint show, the last Coinage Regulations
on
were issued
the 26th May 1883, and contain a provision
that the "cost of coining
silver
Yen shall
be 10 per mil" (or 1 per cent), and,
if
these
Regulations
are
still in
force, the offer of
the
Japanese Government would imply no special concession in favour of Hong Kong. I may further
remark