36%
from any frolonged attempt to Keep the Establishment Len. -
The Dollars riginally wind at the Mint were sent away in great part to the Straits Settlements
and to the Maintank of China._
At first they were
willingly acceftiú ab about their far value
as regards intrinsia, worth, but
latterly from reason, probably a combination of Compradores and Proffs, the highest Chinese Servants im Banking and Mircantile
Establishments) who find it less squeeze with there coins
some unforeseen
easy
t
than with others, which admit
of question and disfute, a difficulty has been experienced in dirculating them, and I am told that the
greater part have either been returned to the Colony, or melted into Silver._ This is a difficulty,
which I have all along pointed
out as
}
offering
an
almost
A
insuperable barrier to the circulation in chinn of highly finished and perfect coinage, because, if once made à legal tender, fayments to official persons and others, would have to be accepted by take without affording the present- ready means of squeezing which
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