CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12] — Page 254

operation which, I then, time & patronage spent it is

regains

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dealized -

a

condemned to send into good and to

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community it is aimed (in the H.K. Community [30]) of to unsoundness

be in the fact that at the

in fact no at my premise

They dollars and but are Fix present moment, converted into bullion,

bullion, instead of being coined into dollars.

So that practically I do nothing

for Farman then Mr Strachan had the

Ma

Mint can be supported

But I was discussing & learning

of the unlawful

from the Treasury, and its

obtaining & information

1. Whether all the silver withdrawn Mexico.

all been it in the

I mean virtually state of bullion.

2. What really had been for some years the relation

of coined silver dollars in circulation in Hong Kong -

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and whether a comparison

can often be found

for weighing whether the different

We provides a fair guess you

value

to Laws with surprise.

Generally depend in the Straits'

Essaying

I do

do not enter

In Cold

attempt to plan the Hong Kong dollar in

a cut of St.K.

I Mexican dollar.

a better backing then nor go

I do not think that.

The Imperial currency could be called in My troop

&

#H.K. dollars

at

a great expense. In that I do not concur in their voluminous-

But I do

not agree with them in thinking that the currency of St.K. is that

ca practically

a currency of bullion. The present law is that as if

to melt

dollars

"dollars"

Mexican dollars and some other of equivalent bullion. Mr Straits Hands (or Judges) that under this law a pay require