CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 326

Ay further communication on this subjet should be addressed to----

The Under Secretary of State,

War Office,

Pall Mall,

and the following number quoted,

C. O.

2226

RE Red 6 94

320

London, S. W.,

War Office,

11088/640

じ

sir,

Pall Mall, S.W.

5th February, 1894.

I am directed by the Secretary of State for War

to request that you will be so good as to state the date

of the promulgation in the Colonies of Hong Kong and the

Straits Settlements of the Queen's Proclamations, issued

of the 1st of November 1864

under the

Orders in

Council

and the 26th day of June, 1867.

These proclamations had for their object the

fixing of the value at which the dollar should be issued

to the Troops.

I am also to request that you will be so good

as to state, at the same time, the date from which the

Queen's Proclamations issued under the Orders in Council

of the 18th of June, 1869, and the 12th of August 1876

took effect in the Colonies of Ceylon and Mauritius.

These latter proclamations directed that the

rupee, with a subsidiary coinage, should, from the date on

which the proclamation took effect in the Colony, be the

sole legal tender of payment.

Under Secretary of State

for the Colonies,

Downing Street.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Mikuck