521

The only objections, apart from the undesirability of reducing at present the available amount of silver in the Colony, that I am aware of to the above course are that the contributors to the Praya reclamation fund deriving 4% interest on the amount to the credit of their contributions is bearing a lower rate of interest in whatever investment the Crown Agents may be able to find for it; and that, if exchange goes up, the number of their dollars will be reduced when the proceeds of the investment are brought back to the Colony.

Lu 17/43

In 9733/93

I shall be glad to learn whether the fees of the fund in the local banks, and that they will complain when they come to know that a portion of their dollars ...

Whether these objections must be allowed to prevail against the possibly greater security of an investment by ...

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