In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
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14648 877
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15316
C. O.
19523
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MEG928 SEP 87)
Sir,
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
September 27 1887.
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Meade's letter of the 22 Instant, and to request you to state to Sir H. Holland that My Lords concur in the reply which he proposes to send to the Foreign Office with reference to the proposal of the Japanese Government to coin silver Yen for the use of the Government of Hong Kong.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
E. W. D. Barrington
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.