CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 40

these coins will pass

current in

Japan,

I have the honor respectfully to request that Your Excellency may be pleased, deem it advisable, to refer

should you

the question to the Japanese

with

they

a view to

ascertaining

Authorities

whether

are inclined to admit the

Hongkong

Dollar I and its

(and

Subsidiary Coimage) into circulation,

and to receive it in payment of Custom House and other dues

in the same manner as the current ¡Mexican Dollar.

It will be seen that the

Hongkong dollar is a decimal faction superior in fineness to either the Bombay

or Mexican

39

Dollar

I have to

(Signed) Jas. M. Munay

C.

a. b. G.