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from Seignorage received from the Public at the Mint since its establishment in May last year had not reached $10,500 without making certain deductions for waste.

I may here state that I have found great difficulty in procuring brief and intelligible Returns from the Mint of the work done there, and I have had to call for many Returns before I could really comprehend the details.

3. Finally, I prepared the enclosed forms for four returns which I insisted on having filled up accurately and I now transmit them. They include the period from the 1st of May 1866 to the 31st July in the present year, a period of nearly fourteen months.

No 1 Return shows all the monies coined at the Mint for this Government with the gross profit and loss thereon, more imaginary than real. The profit, however small as it is, $12,600, has been real, consisting of the difference between the intrinsic worth of $119,000 in alloyed subsidiary coinage, which was unavailable for a long period, during part of which the colony was actually paying 8 per cent on borrowed money.

No 2 Return shews the amount of monies coined for the Public free of Seignorage for some months after the

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-Z 3 from Seignorage received from the Public at the Mint since its establishment in May last year had not reached $10,500 without making certain deductions for waste. I may here state that I have found great difficulty in procuring brief and intelligible Returns from the Mint of the work done there, and I have had to call for many Returns before I could really comprehend the details. 3. Finally, I prepared the enclosed forms for four returns which I insisted on having filled up accurately and I now transmit them. They include the period from the 1st of May 1866 to the 31st July in the present year, a period of nearly fourteen months. No 1 Return shows all the monies coined at the Mint for this Government with the gross profit and loss thereon, more imaginary than real. The profit, however small as it is, $12,600, has been real, consisting of the difference between the intrinsic worth of $119,000 in alloyed subsidiary coinage, which was unavailable for a long period, during part of which the colony was actually paying 8 per cent on borrowed money. No 2 Return shews the amount of monies coined for the Public free of Seignorage for some months after the
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from Seignorage

received from the

Public at the Meint since its

́establishment in

Maay last

had

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not reached $10,500 without making

certain deductions for waste.

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here state that I have

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found great difficulty in procuring brief and intelligible Returns from of the work done there, and I have

to the 31st

a

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July

in the present year,

• period of nearly fourteen months.

No 1 Return shows all the monies

coined at the Meint for this Government

with the gros profit and

gross profit and los thereon,

more

imaginary than

profit however which small as it is, $12,600, has been real consisting

difference

been obliged to call for many

Returns

of

little

before I

I car

as it did

of

the

between the intrinsic warth

mmare

than

а

$119.000 in alloyed

was

found

subsidiary coinage, which unavailable for a long period, during

a

part of which the bolony was actually

details.

3.

could really comprehend the

tinally I prepared the enclosed

1 forms for four returns which I insisted on having filled up accurately and I now transmit them. They include

पाह

the period from the you of May 1866

paying 8 per

cent

borrowed

on

money.

5

No 2 Return shews the amount

of monies coined for the Public free of

Seignorage for

some months after the

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