wonder whether he is right.

All these Speakers at the Meeting

Portish seemed more in favour of a Dollar, than of the Japanese Yen;

& they only advocate

In Chand

becoming

dcance diar

and M. Granville Sharpe started the ludicrous idea of a British Dollar to be coined in Japan, in which country he thought the contemplation of Her Gracious Majesty's head would to some extent counteract the bad influence of Her Majesty's subjects who visit that country.

A Committee has been appointed to Consider the British Dollar question.

Wait till we get hear further in

? Wait till we

me to tele

questim

Cam

12226 dtill this

be considered by the

Currency Committee at its next

Meeting

(I presume it will not assemble merely to consider this Yen question)

Memushilu

?Print this despatch & send: 4,5,6, &

circulate it in first to the Commissioning

to the Committee muc. 1, 2, 3 S.W.9.31 Aug.

C.P.L. 2 Sept

I don't see the ground for draft on to the

You bring accepted in China. It is what

tome in mind that the Chinese do not

(N.B. To be

printed in Small type)

Double space

347

MINUTE PAPER.

regard any coin as so much legal tender, but

so much fine silver; and then some of what

die Wilken Artinom to Keswich and Mens

sary is beats the Chinese Now serpine and

Alacht it

fire silver.

Gran

taining

A

certain quantity of

The legalization of the yen.

the adoption of

a British dollar intimately precludes the idea of

A

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free Standard for Straits Kory; but I do not hund

thent

any

Arc

hoved

umed secondly advocate a

free standard for Straits Kory. I umed not to trany

peat outlay in providing

A

British dollar, but

if it ca

a

I had cheap from the Mint or from Birmingham Firm, I think we might

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