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I am, however, to add that My Lord hopes that the large profit made by the Colonial Government upon the issue of these silver Tokens for circulation, not within the limits of the Colony, but on the mainland of China, is not leading them to lose sight of the serious risk, that is continually augmenting, of future embarrassment to the Colonial Treasury through the return tokens for exchange, at their full nominal value, in possibly very large quantities at once.
The Colonial Government is, of course, under no obligation to furnish a medium of exchange to the Chinese Empire, and if Chinese subjects choose to buy Hong Kong tokens for their own convenience they...
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I am, however, to add that My forde hope that the large profit made by the Colonial
Government
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of
these silver Tokens for circulation, not within the limits of the Colony, but on the mainland of China, is not leading them to lose sight of the serious risk, that is continually augmenting, of future embarrassment to the Colonian Treasure through the return tokens for exchange, at their full nominal value, in possibly verylarg
quantities at once.
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