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COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

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COINS.

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Rates of Exchange of Commissariat Bills, drawn at 30 days'

On London.

sight,

in 1848.

On Calcutta.

For Dollars.

For Rufees.

224 R per 100 Zdies 1 per cent pæmium.

January. At pas. viz 41⁄2′′ per Dollar.

Febuary. From 4/1⁄2 @ 4/22 per Dollar.

220 @ 221 tht per 100 Dols.

None.

March. At fear.

None

None.

April. None.

None.

None.

May. 3/1 2 4/1 per 2.2:8 fq 2 / Rupe None.

None.

June. 3/112 to 4/1 per Dollar.

None.

Now.

July. From 4/. to 4/1⁄2 per Dollar

None.

Yone.

August.

Tone.

None.

None.

Septembre 3/112 @ 4/2 per Dollar.

None.

None.

October.

Mond.

None.

None.

@

November. 3/14 & 4/1 per Dollar.

None.

None.

December. 3/11/4 to 4/. per Dollar.

None.

None.

Maine

The

a.re

only gold coins legally current, are those of the United Blingdon,

and the bast India Company's gold Mohur, coined since the jet September, 1835, value £. 1.9.2, sterlings. This latter, however, is seldom, perhaps never met with in the Colony. The silver coins besides those of the United Kingdom,

the Dollars of Spain, Mexics, and the South American States, cash equivalent to the sterling, and the bast India Company's Rupee, Half, Quarter, Eighth of Rupee, at 1/10, 117, 34, and 24 respectively. Five frane pieces and Dutch Guilders, probably brought from Batavia,

occasionally "found in direnlation, but they are not recognized

and

as currency.

The

copper

coins

are

the copper

of Great Britain, from a Penny to a Half Farthing farw of that's last equal

ard current, as are

China ! Three

"Cash" of China. Half Farthing

Mani