CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3] — Page 287

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fractional parts of a dollar being always paid to Chinese at the Brank

in broken Silver by weight - The

reason of

this

is

that

every

Mercantile

Establishment and private family) here has

Е

Chinese Servant called

Compradon by whom all domestic monetary transactions are settled.

This man I who acts as a

sort

F

- Banker and generally is required to find security) presents his accounts wither in Dollars

regulated currency for making change in domestic circulation rifficult for

has rendered it

very

Europeans to superintend their own

household affairs, and the Comerador

system which is a

is a very

ruinous one,

has therefore witherto been almost

evil. Wages, market

a

necessary

and retail transactions, in short all payments whatever below an Dollar between Chinese in cash, and this Coin may

in

for

cash which are converted into "Follars at the market rate, and

receives payment generally by

ader on a

The absence

Bank

of any

for

an

are settled

all practical purposes

thefre

purposes be considered the subordinate currency of the Colony.

4

an even Lum.

Chinese Chestnuts" 14. The Ensh "Cline Commons Sundi" coin issued

n

"trien" _ the only

the Chinese Groves

nota

settled well

by