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1894.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT.

Enclosuratini to

Coby Telegram sent to the

Vicerry

on the

13th March

1894.

5058

From Secretary of State to Viceroy, 13th March 1894.

Your telegram of 17th February. Dollars. Colonial Office asks whether one per cent, would be accepted for coining any less quantity than five millions of dollars, or only if a large quantity were brought for coinage at one time. They contemplate that Colonial Government shall not do more than legalise British dollars, and that merchants shall themselves make arrangements for procuring what dollars they require from time to time.

It

Copy of Telegram from the Viceroy

dated

22nd March 1894-

10

not worth while

to undertake coinage

on

the

the conditions proposed in your telegram of

13th March, even at much higher percentage.

Y 25549. 950.-2/94. 1.315.

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