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COURSE OF EXCHANGE

Rate of Exchange for commiserial kille seamon at 311⁄2 in 1965.

An London

January off on 93% discount to

o 95 % discount to for Dollars. 4477012112127 -des

Yu

9/-

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+2

45% diverunt to

to for Reefard.

$34

Ahmary off on 9ts of discount to

14/7/e on 94110% dor__} for Dollars.

March 14/84% or 82019 of divem, it to

14/7

129%.

dor } for Dellores.

April 4/7 or 9th factisement for Dollars.

yu n 4/5 disement,

disement for Rupees.

3 per cent premium for British Gold.

On Judia

April. _ 225 to 36 Report for 180 Dollars on tighe a po min

November _222/pt: 23 Rupees for $100,

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1245

200 to 12 of

2453

%

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COINS.

The mly Gold Coins, legally cement are thine of the United Kingdom,

and the East India Coulsong's Gold Mohur, eninde sine the to deptember 1835, value £1.9.2 Sterling. This bitter, however, is seldom, if ever, met with in the Colony, les trove of the United Kingdom, are the

The Silver Coins, Dolours of Sporin, Mexico, and the South American status, eading

vouloit to "w/e Sterling's fit and stop respectively iff as a perfect to / Sterling, The Cast Sandia Coupony's Pupees, Half

The Dollar of Spain is rarely, if ever, met within as a epin, but always eliopped or broken, and pursed by weight - 7.1.7 tinels, being equivalent to $1000. In this starter the Spromish Dollor is not

regulated at the

-legal tender, hit beving the Standard by which all Commerente trobactions with the Chinese it is also the principal

y of the Island The copper coins are thine of the therited Kingdom wordy the Copper Cave of China, 24 of which are equal to one penny Sterling.

British silver is not a legal tender above £4.

and

Here Cain have always been taken intereliangeably for each other at the above rates incoolding to the assumed intention of the Queen's Carclamation of 1. Mary 18450. But by a Judgment of the Supreme Court given fin 18514, it have been decided thich such is not the effects of that Brelanation, and that Speacial Contracts must be Satisfied in the Coin in which they are made. Considerablem enfusion had been the endequence

The Dollour of Spain, Mexico, and the South Amerioum Refurblich, infarct all Dollars being of purity not inferior to that of the

-porr.

Current Shanish Dollars fren or taken at

no

The Spanish Dollars of Carolus III & IV Command, however, preminen of from 16 to 27 per cent, being required for the Throughse Market, and ale pot the whide of their are at present in the hands of mily a few Merchants.