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Two shipments of these coins, amounting in all to $270,000 have been

ordered

from England.

I have ro

(sigued) ALister Treasurer

DRAFT.

Gor. Sie G. Bowen

Hang Mong

MINUTE.

Mr.

Mr.

Err.

no. 34

142 Hong Kong

Grabian Rang

Mr. Wingfield.

Mr. Bramston.

Mr. Meade.

Sir R. Herbert.

Lord Dunraven.

Colonel Stanley.

India 17 aug.

d

85

I have the hourer

tachuralidge the

biebič

L8/55651

Copy Treas.

recipt of your dust. he 244 of the 26th

may last, reporting that

your govt has decided

against the undertaking

thin

issue

qirave of $1 notes, and this i

propose to meet the

difficulty arising from

a scarcity of subsidiary

currency by

wincred

issue of toher coins

!