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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

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information having been

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COINS.

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The only Gold Coins legally current are those of the United Kingdom and the East India Company's Gold Mohur, coined Since 1th September 1835, value & 1. 9. 2? Sterling. This latter, however, its Seldom if

ever met with in the Colony.

The Silver boins beside those of the United Kingdom are the Dollars of Spain, tbexico and the South American States, each equivalent to 14/22 Stirling; the East India Company's Rupees, Half and quarter Rupees, at 1/10, 11

and sip?, respectively.

The Dollar of Spain is rarely, if ever, met with as a perfect: Coin but always chopped or broken, and pafees by weight, 717 Salls 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 of the United Kingdom, and the

Copper lash of China 24 of which are equal to 1? Sterling.

The Queen's

British Silver is not a legal Tender above £2. These boins have always been taken interchangeably for each other at the above Rates, according to the assumed intention of Groclamation of 10th May. 1845; but by a Judgment of the bupreme Court given in 1854 it has been decided that such is not the effect of that Proclamation, and that Special Contracts must be satisfied in the born in which they are made.

The Dollars of Spain, Mexico, and the South American Republics; in fact, all Dollars being of purity not inferior to that of the current Spanish Dolikers, are now taken at par."