CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 298

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recently laid down that all payments in sterling. (except

some small items

of a

a trivial character with regard to which it is not worth while disturbing the system which has hitherts prevailed) from the Colonial Government to the War - Department, and vice versâ, should be calculated in dollars at the market_

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the

day

rate obtaining of payment, may not be

"departed...

departed from.

3.

Your Lordship showat

by such conclusive reasoning in your despatch W: 138 of

the 18th of July 1890 that the -principle of payment at the market rate of exchange is the only sound one, that

it

t appears needless for me to add anything to Your Lordship's remarks in defence of that principle, which it is now - (I cannot but think, inadvertently-)

proposed

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