is said to have been bégalised there according to the Manager of the Oriental Bank, but I
notothi
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cannot find anything authoritation or as to the Frade dollar at the Stmits,
I should doubt the expediency of going
Ihave subrepo found out that a Proclamation of January 1874 Lis Clarke has lega both the Year th
the Governor mach latitude as to declaring bother : the hal
this or that dollar of the requisite fineness
which should
tralne; but the adoption of a system
mitive the advantages _ of excluding mutilated coin of a well-defined basis as to weight, finenestrals, _ toft comitting deveral Cources Finpping would be
a wound improvement on the farcount state Fiff is, I would be accepted by the public_
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kower to do and Ordinance 40 In the shouldin reported it spec
beeporing their to the revsing Iwould omit "favorable candination it in a maller for them to deal with others.
ut lake = "favoralle
if they do
news we that be in a
fcatething to a shrub
ov
f
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exterin po a ferlife intermenelle astirring
Mr. Meade.
In reply to a
question which
understood from Mr. Grahan, you wished for further information as to-
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the Treasury (ggrofib) issued Regulations tatted
(9955/66) 20 October 1866 respecting the weight & fineness of the Hongkong dollar, which were recessary under nordinance 2.32041882 to wake the Bene ligal, but I cannot find that they were was ever authoritatively declared to be legal tender in Hongthing:
A
Coinage
of
& in the canebook the Order in enneil Aug Jani163 (given at p. 22423 of printed presser Kerlugin) in still spoken of as
regulating the currency of
the Colony-
Mirt
8598/66 it would appear that the Aompton Foller was of a slightly has value than the use
Itandard of the Mexican Foller bat of Guivalent inture to the actual Mexican Dollar as generally found in cirentation in
FRR 22/5/74.
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