CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875 — Page 132

Suggestion that the Government

Should issue small notes

Lord Carnarvon

generally in the view of

the Lords of the Treasury,

And

he would be prepared to

sanction such an issue

as a means of extricating the community from this inconvenience

in the very exceptional

drags or difficulties

attaching to the

anomalous condition of the circulation

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Certain of the banks

with

respect to which a separate letter of like date is addressed to

you, His Lordship is

averse to recommending

the proposal that the

Government should make a

similar issue, subject to

different conditions, until

the whole of the island is

subject to

the clear understanding

that coin is to be retained

against every note issued

so as to exclude a chance

of the scheme being regarded

as a source of profit -

3. Having regard, however, to the correspondence that has passed relative to the issue of $1 dollar notes by

Hong Kong, he is satisfied that no

other remedy for the present condition of the

Currency could be adopted with advantage

4. The information contained

in your letter as to the fact that a British Dollar is suspected by the

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