CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6] — Page 337

4.

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어

"that it will be the best counse

"

to commence

• changes of

it

the proposed

the monetary

system at Stoustong with the

aid

of

cent pieces

pieces only, leaving

Mr Peel to

Sir F. Roger

124

March

1862.

the question of coining other "subsiding pieces for future

consideration; and propose to make the new cent pieces a legal tender up to the amount of Five Kollars.

4.

I am afraid that such change will be productive

an

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very little advantage. improvement will no double be improve the

made in the system of Keeping

the Government accounts and in

the small receipts at the Treasury, but it will effect

reform

no

general

The Cent is for too large

a

for

the

the

suttivision of the Sollen daily domestic purposes of Chinese Anry the

-

one going

through the

shops, markets, and huckster: stalls of

this City and seeing the

Ahurst innumerable number of articles that can be purchases

for a

a

cash each, would at once understand

this. If the proposed change therape were carried out with the cent

the sole subsidiary coin

alone,

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