CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6] — Page 167

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I await the receipt of the

Coins (or further instructions (" from your brace) before fixing

day for announcing the

the bay for

circulation of the new currency,

1, and passing

Legislative enactment

4.

>

Commissariat officer

now

before

me I learn that that departement "does not circulate more than " about £5 of British Silver auch

and

" about £1 of copper per mouth. ? 6. The Colonial Treasury

the

necessary

holds

mone

With

reference to the

7.

paragraph of your braces a despatch suggesting the calling I in of the British Silver and

I copper coins in circulation, I '" would remark that such coins I are now and for long part rarely I met with here, and such calling

in would I think be

5.

unneceremy.

By a note

7

the Sevin

of

either coin. -

As regards the

general

public I have written to the

4

manager of the Principal Benk here (the briental Bank Coporation) who states this: The amount of

" " "British Silver at present in

" Circulation in the Colony must

be

very ernall; we seldom if

ever make

anry

use

of it. The

" Comprador tells me he always

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