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COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
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COINS.
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Unknown,
no
information having been
Supplied by the Commissariat practice hitherts.
as was the
The only Gold boins legally current, are those of the United Kingdom, and the East India Company's Gold Michur, coined Since 1th September 1835, value £1.9.3 Sterling - This latter however is seldom if ever met with in the
ever met with in the bolony.
The Silver boins beside those of the United Kingdom, are the Dollars of Spain, Mexico and the South American States, each
equivalent to 4/20 Sterling; the East India Company's Rupees, Half and quarter. Rupees at 1/10, 11 and 5/22 respectively.
The Dollar of Spain is rarely, if ever met with as a perfect coin, but always chopped or broken, and passes by weight, 717 Faels being equivalent to $1000. In this state the Spanish Dollars are not a legal Tender, but being a standard by which all Commercial transactions with the Chinese are regulated at the Consular Ports, it is also the principal currency of the Island..
The Copper boins are those the United Kingdom, and !
equal to 1. Sterting.
the Copper Cash of China 24 of which
of
are
British Silver is not a legal Fonder above £2. These boins have always been taken interchangeably each other at the above Rates, according to the assumed intention of The Queen's Proclamation of 144 May, 1845, but by a Indgment of the Supreme Court given in 1854, it has been decided that sne is not the effect of that Proclamation, and that special Contracts mush be satisfied in the boin in which they are made.
Ganel
The Dollars of Spain, Mexico, and the South America Republies, in fact, all Dollars being of purity not inferior to that the burent Apomish Dollars, are now taken at par.
Hoer Moajesty's Proclamation of the 9th January 1863, regulating the New currency of Honghong, having come into operation on the 16th February 1864, this Return will be altered accordingly in the Blue Book for 1884.