CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844 — Page 200

seem

thee to discuss

I soms needless further

this alterative.

9.

The facts and reasonings before statist secur 1. Harrant the followering conclusions,

vry:

of

more

That the corculation of Hong Kongie, and sunst probably contime to be governed by that of the Ports of China,

Canton, expecially Coulon, from which, or

... from

the

of England.

all

ereunty its trading and laboring population is chilly clerivect, then by that ch legbent of the other dependencies on England, violely separated from it by distance and little consucted with it. India exceplect

commercial intercourse. (3).

by

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That the dollar consequently must always be referrect to us the standard of value, by which that of all other coins in circulation will practically be sueasured, be the legal value fisid ca il way. (3)

That the

capricious

woole

f

estination

estimation prevalent

the Chi

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among

renders it determinable only by experiment

might

at what value British silver coin

them, but that experience

thus be rated by

in regard to thew coms renders & probable

that this would be estimated rather below

than a bow it relatic well (4)

That the British silver couis in

colivary use, whether estimated at their nominal

ansial or then intrinsic value, cannot be

of

made exact aliquot parts of the collar, the intrinse worth producing a fraction the most inconvenient kind, while the scominal proportions of either "/" or "/" t the dollar though make the collar the exact multiple of

rore obvious do not

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any English silver com except the Great (4)

That there accordingly exists

Converuence.

little ground for experting either profit or

from the introduction. Butik ülver cous, the former beny scarcely

of