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Colony undertakes the direct

importation of

account.

for

the

Silver

on its

own

purpose of

on

the

coinage, it mist rely Bankers and General Public to send in those supplies of

either Bullion or

Coinage of

quantities

dollars, the

which in large

can alone enable

the Colony to derive

any

without having

recourse to the

system of chopping or stamping each dollar separately would дат

their confidence and suppat and thereby eventually compel the Barks and mercantile firms to use the Colonial coinage, still there can be no doubt that

the

weality and influential firms here were to operate and

that combine for

purpose they might adjourn for a long period if not indefinitely, that epoch of confidence, which is necessay to the success

if

benefit

from its previous outlay and future fixed annual expenditure on the Mint.

5.

Although in the long run

I believe the issue

of

Jollars on

6.

which the Chinese might rely

7

the Mint

Possibly an Englishmas