CO129-018 - Others - 1846 — Page 119

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

House Commo Admiralty

Agent

Board of Tra

Box

Foreign

Office

Ho

Of

288 Cash

n

LO

576 for 2/m, but at the

"rate of 1/10 the Rupees would

only be worth 528 Cash cach "whereas the Chinese of their "own accord by taking; 2/- Rupee give 576 for the latter, being

as the

over and above the

a difference_ Government rate of

"22 Herling.

48 Caste,

a

Adverting to which Statement My Lords have to suggest to Mt

Gladstone that the attention

of

should.

the Governor of Hong Kong. be called for the allegation it Contains, and if the same be well founded that he should be Enjoined to take care that no such enhancements of the value of the Rupee is recognised by any Public Deportment & Tribunal in the Island,

and that no comparative undervaluation of British Silver

Coin as a Tender in the Ordinary

!

+

Bahnur Fransactions

2

o their

117

contravention of the provision of Her Majesty's Reclamation Alading to the Cussency is permitts &

Jaw

Si

Your obedient Servant

The Sprung

177

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