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judgment of the general Competincy of

the Mint sta

stuff

to conduct Anecessfully

the diffientt operation of opening a

New Mint in a

and, when melted inte bars, again

assayed, before rolling.

strange Country, and

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Is

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equally certain before,

my only hope is that my opinion may

be entirely cronious.

I form that opinion chiefly

from the fact of few of the numerous difficultées

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urged

as ese curses

haing

been foreseen- or if forecacen not having been placed before the Excentive here in their proper proportions. Nevertheles

it

wws

ago as

equally curtain six months now that if the Mint succeeded large quantities of old dollars would have to

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be fremelled assayed - reported on 10

as now, that the Chinese laberus

to instinct and

would be

at

difficult

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first Comparatively, awkward and useles .- Mr. Kinder however had all the means and opportunities he requested for training them and except the recent illnes of the foreman- Mle. Peyton

in the premetting

department, I am not aware

of any

impediment now stated which might not have been forcaun.

13.

Mr. Kinder told me som