CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893 — Page 278

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The Original Charter by which your Memorialists are governed fixes the limit of their Note issue at an amount equal to their Sterling Capital. At the date of the original Charter this equivalent was settled at the fair average of exchange of the day based also upon past experience by which the dollar was treated as equivalent to 4/- or a fifth of a pound Sterling whereby the Capital (£800000 Sterling) was equivalent to $4000000. Owing however to the depreciation in the value of Silver during the last 20 years the Silver dollar does not now represent an exchangeable value of more than 2/9 Sterling, so that the same Sterling Capital would now be equivalent to $5818190, the result is that the Bank's present Note Issue by no means accurately represents the equivalent of its Sterling Capital, and it is not therefore obtaining the full benefit of the Note issue contemplated by its Charters.

Under the circumstances stated in this Memorial it is apparent that it would be of great benefit to the places now served by the Bank's Note issue, and to all persons having business transactions with such places that the deficiency in the Note circulation which has arisen should be recognised and that the Bank should be authorised to make a Note issue equivalent to the amount of its Sterling paid up Capital at the present average rate of exchange.

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276 The Original Charter by which your Memorialists are governed fixes the limit of their Note issue at an amount equal to their Sterling Capital. At the date of the original Charter this equivalent was settled at the fair average of exchange of the day based also upon past experience by which the dollar was treated as equivalent to 4/- or a fifth of a pound Sterling whereby the Capital (£800000 Sterling) was equivalent to $4000000. Owing however to the depreciation in the value of Silver during the last 20 years the Silver dollar does not now represent an exchangeable value of more than 2/9 Sterling, so that the same Sterling Capital would now be equivalent to $5818190, the result is that the Bank's present Note Issue by no means accurately represents the equivalent of its Sterling Capital, and it is not therefore obtaining the full benefit of the Note issue contemplated by its Charters. Under the circumstances stated in this Memorial it is apparent that it would be of great benefit to the places now served by the Bank's Note issue, and to all persons having business transactions with such places that the deficiency in the Note circulation which has arisen should be recognised and that the Bank should be authorised to make a Note issue equivalent to the amount of its Sterling paid up Capital at the present average rate of exchange.
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at yonerrøð báoƉ ont gated. szent .07637afd #sì W backtontum suaal erit,no beirras al aavertaud a'demß erit riskitw it uossiq onli inalaviupe erit noqu bosad yanarros revita ni sidayaq xidvižno at asi yď boxit as wiires2 13 eds of yanataza dasta ZAPOMER

.anottaloget dos arefier[]}

od drvet nood sad sadol ask to inad edi tð emet adr

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ortu gƐLatomos skidat oda bna sreber? et Infoftened vrSY

.* To savivammit Ilava visytai

!

a treme£$102 asiansē edit mart 0036% to moltaIvette "SIT

qur beneqo planet nämnakrm% yafaM old mi nekrotkret advies oufa ebari rot aniqoisvet gisŋsal won bra,relivetorq diakttag rebau

8

.

trigłow yď #talloh al al vonsutum eis erode zrazánok ni

tekent xasë eft nequ 29upim to arobioɗ suentro eft,bétauos jan bisq anisd of Vinsmart doetde yont Bes setol ni Blaq sated no od vobro ni vïaastoon si delriw boqqorto vovíta tó assetq ni

•Ingiaw Imelsvimpe edt qu siiam

12

13

• Jọn seob notisiverio blob s dokɗw oð sætuinueð ni

#robaxï oj ogainavba isery to at setoë llore to sau erit

OI

Tiqqa

sidarablanoo Raivisa vit diłw baraquae us axersta bra asvitaй Vra8aeoen al doid antos to saitalliım bas griqqoda ant bas

tigżew yó begradoxe at revika shade weekly ni sovita to strigłow

.meuperio Jantaga

II

The Original Charter by which your Memorialists are

governed fixes the limit of their Note issue at an amount equal

to their Sterling Capital. At the date of the original Chart er this equivalent was settled at the fair average of exchange of the day based also upon past experience by which the dollar was treated as equivalent to 4/- or a fifth of a pound Sterling whereby the Capital (£800000 Sterling) was equivalent to

$4000000. Owing however to the depreciation in the value of

Silver during the last 20 years the Silver dollar does not now represent an exchangeable value of more than 2/9 Sterling, 80

that the same Sterling Capital would now be equivalent to $5818190, the result is that the Bank's present Note Issue by no means accurately represents the equivalent of its Sterling Capital, and it is not therefore obtaining the full benefit of

the Note issue contemplated by its Charters.

Under the circumstances stated in this Memorial it is

apparent that it would be of great benefit to the places now served by the Bank's Note issue, and to all persons having business transactions with such places that the deficiency in the Note circulation which has arisen should be recognised and that the Bank should be authorised to make a Note issue equiv- -alent to the amount of its Sterling paid up Capital at the present average rate of exchange

Jsiv ) sának redito oNÍ BLAU STAď? #%ady #taÏ [IJAV

elitasorel benetrend ent bus mottaraqre© geisnad In‡ÙSIYO SIT

9Joй evismeixe na bur dalis (ant♫0 & rebral sibel to xmas

art of Novawodi gntwo „ot betretov sosaiq ont mi mottaimaala

-10007 ert bra,#881 maet ede at mad wstot #ft to noteneqeme

Severi Joй erit,dmad betìmil a an xanë rojjal eɗt to nolfowitĦ-

everi etoll beæirodžum eft „bensee evaá adaná ows ouerit to

YiLaToneg VJinumos #Na dne srebati or sidaitava von stote resis

to emulov odd basṁ verjo erð me talke bedeinimið ritsørg #t

Ilita si boa beaneroat plovizasıyorq Das visgraf war odaTİ

GRITÈRMICON

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