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enclosures to the Master of

Mint, together with

the

the previous

correspondence on

the

Jame

subject

Fore

and their Lordolipes

informed that Officer that

They

were

generally

disposed to concur

the principle

which it is proposed to settle

the currency of Hong Kong, but that the measures suggested by the Governor, for the issue of subsidiary to the dollar, will

coins

require careful consideration, and My Lords requested the opinion

I

of the Master of the Mint

the subject.

Their Lordships,

time observed

of so

as

or

at the sance that the success

mech of the proposed scheme

contemplates the issue of

coms to circulate in the place

of Chinese Cash at the rate of 1000.

to the Dollar, appears

to be very problematical,

Shey

and that

in the

are nichned to

aque opinion expressed by the Duke

of

Newcastle that it will be

the best course

to commence the

proposed change of the monetary

septem

of

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