CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 81

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liberal a supply of

Bullion mush

naturally have contemplated receiving

back then property coined into ~

stengking dollars - in

thim they

they can now

but reasonable,

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shorter time

C

expect it is

onable, as the delay is consed.

by the condition of the Mint Slaff and Machinery, that the period of free ennage should be extended.

I shall therefore propow to the

Executive Cormeil to extend that

period:

livo months additional

for lu

namely till the ft Sily

th

but

judging exfilanatory

from alle Kinder's enclosed ex

report, there seems but a gloomy-

prospect of much being done even

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then.

I therefore apprehend that as dollars

now deposited at the mint are

there with

itto a lof

left to the owners of the

high interest borne by money in this

we shall find

pant of the world, before long the Bankers and others withdrawing the bullion deposited. The consequence cannot be otherwise than preyndicial to the prestige and prospects of the mink

10.

I have to request that Als Kinder's enclosed explanation report

may be laid before the Moater of the mint. It is desirable that his

opinion thereon should be I myself

have formed

giver ~ for

formed an unfavorable.