CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2] — Page 94

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items have been overlooked.

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you

I have therefore to request that

will cause the ne

be given

necessary

directions to

to the Crown Agents to place,

themselves at once in Communication

from which it will be seen that the Dollar is too valuable a coin to be thus experimented

on, and hence the selection of the ten cent

piece,

a coin already approved by Her

Meajesty The Queen, and much for the local currency

I did not with

required

with all Graham with

a view to the

5.

regard

to this

supply of metal.

follow

the Course I have

matrices and dies for the news dollar being sent out without delay overland.

I take this opportunity of

mentioning that alle Kinder brought to notice the Expediency of a preliminary- working of the Mint with either bronze Silver, and that I have directed that a Sum of # 5000 be advanced by the Colonial

$5000

Freasure

for

the

ten cent pieces

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purpose of being coined into

I enclose Mr. Kinder's letter,

reported in my Despatch 210 of 27t December last, first because the sum

ivas

so small, and Secondly because at

the first working there will probably be a loss of metal, and this would entail a complicated adjustment with the Bank supplying the Silver,

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6.

. But on fuller reflection I may

state that I am s

satisfied that I

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