CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 47

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Silver Eu

more convenient thou more

any as being more - euerevery, as portable and less liable to counterfeits, or depreciation of value by bove alloy difficult of detections to the commonality. They have in effect long had, what Europeon nations have only

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a Commo

recently adopted. de a means of.

:conomizing metallic ourrency, paper currency supplying medium of eachonge for all troncoctions of ordinary life from five hundreds dollars to fifty Bath, or say from. :hundred pounds to six pence.

will

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This premised, "jour texcellency,

· cordily understand the repugnance of the Imperial Government

to listen to an to involve them in complicated

my propositions tending

questions of currency, which they

do not profess to understand, certain to cast upon them a

and

responsibility from which they

find themselves happily free .

The

questionn is by

no means

new to them. M. Hart has had

plans and estimates

for a Chinese Mint before them since 1863. There when they seemed

time even when

-disposed to consider the expediency

and the practicability of establishing one; but the moment the Hong Hong

offer to coin for them came forward the idea seemed to vanish. There