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be totally unserviceable.

Extrual from

a Letter of the 16th September, 1868, from Mr Kresser, Manager of the Hong Hong and Shanghai Banking Carporation. _

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*

three fourths of my cash reserve are in queen's effigies and Thold

my chopped dollars for

one

per cent premium_

Extract of

of a Letter

of the 17t

September, 1868, from M. But Bunce,

Manager of the Comptoir d'Es compte.

Destimate

timate the number of Hong Kong Mint Pollars at present in circulation

in this Colony eat about one million __ and that something like 3 – 400,000 have been sent to India to be melted

into Rupes - The remainder must

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be circulating in the Straits Settlements, as the Chinese on the Mainland. absolutely refuse to take them...

It therefore follows that for general

""

trading purposes in this Colony the old-s

Chopped Mexican Dollars

serviceable.

"

are

the

prore

(True Extracts)

I Gardina Martine