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KEGS 10 MAY OF
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,
40 THREADNEEDLE STREET,
The Lords Commissioners of
His Majesty's Treasury,
Whitehall,
London,
S.W.
LONDON, W.C.
April 7th 1909.
My Lords,
The enclosed copy of a letter addressed by me to His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor of Hongkong, bears on the question of Note Issues
and the position of legal tender Currency in that Colony. I have been informed in reply that the points raised are
having the consideration of His Excellency, and that I shall
in due course receive a further communication from him.
My object in writing Your Lordships at the present juncture is respectfully to ask that no definite action regarding the matallic or paper issues of the Colony, or the privileges
and monopolies enjoyed in connection therewith, be taken
without my being given an opportunity of personally present-
ing to Your Lordships a statement of the disabilities
entailed by the present conditions, not only on ourselves
but on the Government and community of Hongkong.
I have the honour to be
Your Lordships' most obedient Servant
(Sd) JAS. CAMPBELL
Chief Manager.
P.S. I am sending a similar letter to the Under Secretary of State for
the Colonies.
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