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present.

2.

be increased to a Million Dollars. $1,000,000.

a

In the despatch in question I

vnit

proposed, and Your Lordship

Avas

to

pleased to approve, a regular yearly

of Seven hundred and

supply of

fifty$750,000.

of

thousand dollars. During the course

last year.

a mistake in a telegram's

caused an extra shipment of Tivo hundred $250,000.

and

fifty thousand dollars to be sent out,

- thus increasing the year's

to

issue

of

Coins

Million Dollars. This ount has $1,000,000.

an out

not proved at all too much, indeed the

issue how had to be very jealously

restricted during

the last three months,

to

great inconvenience which

to prevent the great inco

results.

from

-the completo exhaustion

the stock. We are

of

now within

a few

are now

days of the Chinese New Year, and ~

though a balance of.

con

coin has been kept

been

in the Treasury, this how only been accomplished by refusing a great many applications, expecially from Chinese.

The large amount of m

3.

building

and other works, both public

and private, going

on in the Colony,

naturally increases the demand for

these coins, as Contractors and others

need them to pay their workmen.

Probably

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