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Given at Colombo, in the said Island of Ceylon, this twenty-third day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
By his Excellency's command, CHARLES P. LAYARD,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
God save the Queen.
Coins in Circulation--
Indian silver:
Company's and Queen's rupee.
17
""
half rupee.
35
quarter rupee.
One-eighth rupee or two anna piece.
Ceylon copper decimal subdivisions of the
Five cent piece.
Cent piece.
Half cent piece.
Quarter cent piece,
Amount of coin in circulation not known.
rupee
:
Notes of the local banks in circulation about Rs. 3,838,210 in 1879.
Accounts kept rupees
and cents.
HONG KONG.
EXTRACT OF REPORT of the ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
1. Order în Council of 9 January 1863, published in Government Gazette of 2 May 1863, declares that Mexican dollars or other silver dollars of equivalent value duly authorised by the Governor of Hong Kong shall be the only legal tender, and making provision hut for the issue of silver coins representing some multiple of the cent or one-hundredth part of the said dollar to be a legal tender for any sum not exceeding two dollars, and for the one-of copper or bronze coins representing the cent or one-hundredth part of the mil or cash/repre- senting one-thousandth part of the dollar te be a legal tender for any sum not exceeding one dollar Provides also as to the preparation and devices of such coins to be issued from the mint. See preamble to Local Ordi- nance 1 of 1864.
2. Ordinance No. 1 of 1864 recites the above Order in Council, and provides that British sterling is to be
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converted into dollars at 4s. 24. per dollar, when the Governor proclaims it.
3. Proclamation under Ordinance 1 of 1864. See Gazette, 23 January 1864. By this Proclamation Ordi- nance 1 of 1864 is to take effect from 16 February 1864.
4. Ordinance 2 of 1864.-This Ordinance provides for tho establishing of a mint in the Colony (which was established and worked, but has been removed for some years).
5. Governor's Proclamation in Gazette of 14 September 1866. This Proclamation recites Order in Council of 1863, and proclaims the Hong Kong dollar and half- dollar legal tender.
6. Treasury Regulations of 20 October 1866, published in Gazette, 12 January 1867.-These regulations for dollar, half-dollar, and subsidiary coinage made in pursuance of Ordinance 2 of 1864.-The Hong Kong Mint Ordinance, sec. 2 of which empowers the Governor to frame regulations under which the Mint shall receive silver bullion and coin the same.
7. Ordinance 6 of 1865, sections 13, 20.-This Ordi- nance relates to the offences of forging bank notes.
8. Ordinance 10 of 1865.--Offences against coinage, but sections 4, 5, 16, 17, 26, 27 not in force by Pro- clamation in Gazette of 21 October 1865 under the Ordinance.
9. Proclamation under Ordinance 10 of 1865. See Gazette, 21 October.-N.B.-This is important, as it permits the Chinese custom in South China of chopping dollars.
Order in Council, 27 November 1875.-Rate for issue of silver dollar to Her Majesty's troops reduced from 4s. 3d. to 4s. 1d.
Note Circulation.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Ordinance 5 of 1866, sections 12 and 13.-(1.) The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank issues notes of five dollars and multiples of five under section 12.
The same bank issues notes of one dollar under the sanction of the Governor and under the proviso of that section.
Letter of Governor, 27 June 1872, authorising one dollar notes.--No Gazette notice of such sanction can be
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