CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 461

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Copy of Telegram from Minister of Finance to

The Chartered Bank.

Your telegram about coinage presuming

You

en

have

Rome

authority for making

and

quiry we reply that we would favorably consider a proposal from the Straits, Hongkong governments to undertake

coinage for them

we would simply require

payment as manu facturers

would be

70

and

Chera

charge for seignorage.