CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6] — Page 342

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for which, therefore, there be good ground with which I am not acquainted; but it alpears to me

that two dollars

is the maximum amount to which the subsidiary camency hould be allowed to be a legal

tender.

10.

I bserve also in Mr. Peeli etter to Sir F. Rozens of the 12th march last, that it is contemplated by Ster Minjesty's Government in the new Proclamation to make "the Mexican Dollar "the sole legal tender of payment I think it would be better to

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existing Proclamation "the dollar "of Spain, Mexics, or the South "American States; there

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some shawish and South American Dollars in circulation there at present, although not in any

great number.

11.

I would strongly unge

therefore for the reasons I have given that if the New Rozel- Royal. Proclamation has not been

respatched to the Colony before the recipt of this communicati it should declare the subsiding currency to the dollar to be Mitial