CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 274

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10.

on the 23rd January last, to meet cutai'r payments amounting to about £ 5,000, urgently required by

The Chinese Contuctors for Public Works - Subsequently, when the Deposit, which consisted of 100 Sovereigns, had to be repaid, and the same description of

Coin was demanded.

a

by the Payee,

purchase of 36 Sovereigns at

effected (the market

5 each was

rate was then # 52 per Sovereign) and the remainder at the

Government rak of. 4 4 2 2

In further explanation of the present subject, I beg

respectfully to inform you

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11.

that so for back as the 6 December last, I advised the lak Treasury Commission that had already shown

experience had

that in the disposal of

me

any

amount of weighed Dollars

by small payments in counted Dollars, a deficiency in number

would incitably occur, -.

-from the fact that the greater portion of Dollars in any large number which poises the Scales, weigh individually more than the established rate of 7.1.7. When a Somewhat increased deficiencs

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