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Canton Government notes shall be used for the convenience of all concerned, At present the Canton market is as peaceful as ever. Any one who wishes to obtain any cash money for his use may apply to any one of the banks of this guild for à exchange of same at his own choice. This is a special notice for general information.
Notified by the Chung Shun Tong, guild of Native Banks, at Kwongchow. Dated 13th,day, 9th.moon 2nd. year of Suen Dung.
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION/.
Chan, Provincial Treasurer of Kwangtung Province in the matter of issuing a notification for general information, Whereas the notes of the three denominations, viz.- Ten dollars, five dollars and one dollar, at maces and andareens to a dollar or at par with the subsidiaryicoins on exchange, which are issued by the Canton Government Bank and on the back of which are printed all the conditions under which they are to be used as a currency, have been hitherto accepted and used with confidence by all people; whereas owing to the Yuen Fung Yun Bank having suspended payments, some law- defying bad characters have recently invented stories saying that the Government Bank has been affected by the Yuen Fung Yun's failure, thus befooling the ignorant people and making profits out of them by collecting the Canton Government Notee at a discount of ten or twenty per cent from them and obtain- ing the full value on exchanging them from the Government Tank, and some of these bad characters rel
refuse (even) to accept
these notes on purpose;
whereas these people do not know that the Government Bank is a public establishment is quite
(sic)
different from the Yuen ung Yun which is a merchant's firm and which has no connection whatever with the Government; and whereas all cunning tradere and wily merchants who for the sake of seeking their own profite spoil the interests of the
whole