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weeks back he ex

Evining from

expected

u to

to begin by

10,000 to 18,000 dollars

- per day - and to increase that quantity to 49,000. It is not therefore surprising

if I am mas

lefs inclined to reprose

:dence in his calentations and

comfidenc

if I am les sanguine as to the prospents

of

are

14.

the mint - especially as its expenses

daily increasing

The latter is a serious matter

for, whilst Mr. Kinder apprehends the cost of silver to au

Silver to Inpply the wasty will amount to "a formidable sum", he has also told me that it will be

necefomy to inlays extensively the

enlarge buildings for the Bremitting

of

the

Department- a necessity which I imagine, if it really exciste, is one

very things that might and ight to have been foreseen.

Under all the circumstanes

15.

I can

enly join.

which I do

very

sinemely in allr Kindu's hope that the period "may

not

be for distant- when the arrangements will work "more satisfactorily than at present"

I have the honor to be

Youn

Siv

Most Obedient Servant

Richard Grands Maidsmell.

Gove

overnor.