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Memo, No 292.

Mer Smith,

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2nd March, 1868.

At the recent meeting

in my Office on the 24th February of the Members of Council, Bankers, and others threw out or suggestion that the Banks, who have hitherto

found their profit in the maintenance of the Mint at the Iublic expense might see their

to making it

rudy

profitable, if they undertook the whole cost of the establishment, sund

in return had the control of the a

This would at least

coinage.

enable the Meint to be kept open.

and give it a longer trial. _