CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 144

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I have the honor to acknowledge the

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receipt of M. Shonges letter

of the

25the time,

transmitting, for my observations, two letters from

in original the Colonial Office with enclosures, dated the 1916

churned herewith

4 January and 19th of February last respectively relative to the currency of Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, and especially calling my

attention to the proposals respecting the American

Trade-dollar and the Japanese You.

Both these coins were

Ssucet

with a ve

view

to compete with the Mexican Dollar, which had

for some years before their issue practically been the only coin used in the Commera of China: The Secretary

Treasury

and

J. W