CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3] — Page 314

Enclosure 2.

C 0.

7042

Report by the Capterin deponistentnct of Police.

I have the honour, with;

510

h reference

to the minute of it is Excellency

- of "His Excellescoy the Officer

Administering

the Government, dated 11th

March, 1886 on Colonial Office Despatch

N£10 of 1886, to report that the

N210 of 1886,

that the ignorance

de and Scotland

prevailing in England

as to the purchasing

value

Mexican Dollar, the current coin

of the

Colony,

is so great

that wen

of the of the class

from which the Police Constables

are

of

drawn would accept the unmber dollar mentioned in the paper placed before them for signature

ax a

feir

their minds that

amount, influnced by a general

impression governing

if they

trying

are to accept service in a

chinate come ten thousand