CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12] — Page 123

been urged to form an opinion in my Mauritius (confidential) despatch No. 120 of itself taking up the question which for the reasons given in my minute on Mauritius Secretariat should be postponed for the present, as being premature.

The Treasury, I have been informed, have already written to her Majesty's Government in England to bring the question forward. In the meantime I am acting privately & through a draft & flame the Treasury & the Foreign Office that they in pursuance of the entire debate afford an opportunity of expressing their intention in this department which might facilitate the proposal of a uniform currency.

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