CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12] — Page 317

I am

Your Excellency's

most obedient servant

(signed) J. Ishikawa,

Commissioner of the Imperial Mint

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Memoranda relating to some of the Technical operations

of the Imperial Mint, Osaka.

These memoranda are intended to show

chiefly the methods of procedure adopted at the Imperial Mint to ensure accuracy in

the Fineness and in the weights of the silver coins.

The Bullion imported into the Mint

for the

production of this coin may

be divided into three classes.

Refined Silver ingots from the Mint Refinery

Foreign Refineries

Silver ingots refined by an old native process.

I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected "J. Ishimal" to "J. Ishikawa" (likely spelling error). 2. Corrected "Feshnical" to "Technical" (spelling error). 3. Corrected "accurası" to "accuracy" and "inĮ" is likely a scanning error, so I removed it (OCR errors). 4. Corrected "sieves" to "silver" (contextual correction for "silver coins"). 5. Corrected "Puttion" to "Bullion" (spelling error). 6. Corrected "Nint" to "Mint" (spelling error). 7. Corrected "You" to "silver" (contextual correction for "silver coins"). 8. Corrected "se" to a proper sentence structure, removing it as it seemed unnecessary. 9. Corrected "be divided into three cases" to "be divided into three classes" (likely the correct term in this context). 10. Formatted the text into paragraphs using HTML `

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