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voted for the tael against eight in favour of the
dollar, and there can be no question that the tael,
variable as it has been hitherto in weight and value,
represents a standard to the Chinese mind which the
dollar has failed to impair.
The new tael and half-tael coins are to be
ninety-eight per cent. pure silver, and there will
be subsidiary ten cent and five cent pieces of
eighty-eight per cent. pure silver. The Board of
Finance and the Provincial authorities are enjoined
to take measures for the early introduction of the
new coinage into general use, it being recognised
that the use of sycee and the various dollar curren-
cies now in circulation will have to continue for
some years to come.
It will be noted that the memorial of the Gov-
ernment Council was evoked by the representations of
T'ang Shoayi, on the eve of his departure for
America and Europe, that the unfulfilled articles of
the Commercial Treaties (of 1902-3) should be car-
ried out without further delay. One of the objects
of Tong Tajen's mission being to gain enforcement of
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