CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862 — Page 302

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

whwards, and authorizing a

of cents

only

subsidiary coinage; and that with the Master

of

Corin

the Mint should aswell.

be instructed to com

one cent

bronze pieces, as proposed

in

his report, in order to their transmission to the Colony

with

a view to their introduction

into ciculation contemporaneously

with the paping of

Law.

the new

The question of introducing Imall Spanish Silver money

for further may stand over

consideration, but my

Lords

299

are

inclined to

afree in

in the

ereins expressed by the master

on the subject.

of the Minit

The wider question of

attempting to improve the cash currency of China is desering

of attention, and, although My Lords would be disposed to lean

to the opinion that the duty

of Her Majesty's Government is confined to the Colony of Hong Kong. They that the interesting Report

of the Master

recommend

of

the Mint on

this subject should be communicated

are

to

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