CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 139

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-by chopping. The Colonial Government appears to be of opinion that this evil

evil might

be remedied by legislation restricting the circulation to clean Dollars. Long experience haueact has

laught My Lords to doubt the efficacy of legislation of this character. Hongkong is little

More

than a suburb of

Canton, and as long as chopped

dollars are current in the

letter City, it will probably suit the convenience of Hongkong traders to accept

them

them; and

that care

in

They

will simply disregard

prohibitory ordinance.

Hongkong

The

and Shanghai bank.

My

found, as it appears to Foods, a method of meeting

the wants

of

the Co

a on mee

enity.

by the issue of dollar notes - There are, however, as the Secretary of State knows, valid objections to the issue of sinall" notes by

Bank which of I

by a

rits acon

course acts only for its

profit; and my Lords, after much consideration, came

the conclusion that the

to

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