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RESOLUTION

C. O.

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of the Shanghai Committee of The China Association.

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The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce having forwarded

appointed a copy of the Report of the Special Committed to consider the

expediency of evining a British dollar to the Shanghai Committee

of the China Association with a request for their co-operation

and support, the Shanghai Committee invited the Managers of the

English Banks having branches in Changhai but not represented

on the Committee, to confer with them upon the course to be

adopted; and a meeting was held to-day, when it was RESOLVED

That the donclusions arrived at by the Special Committee are

fully justified, and that the coinage of a British dollar will

benefit British trade with China generally.

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In according their full support to the report of the Special

Committee and particularly to the final paragraph of that

report, the Committee of the China Association in Shanghai

desire to point out that the coinage of a British silver dollar

has been urged by them in a communication addressed to the

Government of India, dated September 25th.1693, and transmitted

by the latter to the Secretary of State for India for the in-

formation of Her Majesty's Government, as a material factor in

the possible solution of the Silver question.

Copies of this resolution signed by the Committee and the

Kunagora of the Banks present, to be forwarded to the Hongkong

General Chamber of Commerce and to the General Committee in

London,

signed: -

Shanghai, January 25th.,1694.

R.M.Campbell

C.J.Dudgeon,

J.W.Harding Charles Dowdall V.H.Talbot,

Committee.

E.F.Alford,

E.3.Spottore,

A.S.Bremner, J.D.Thorburn, Wade Gard'ner

I.L.Hunter.