CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 135

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scher can

whilt it is

out that although the that

occasionally kobtaid more cheaply in India than in London

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the other

it is curtain,

not only hand, that the Indian

market is much smaller

than the Lords market, but that it is mainl supplied from Landa I do not think it would de possible to rely for the regular subtly of the subsidian silver coins upon the feriods of

over suffly

and fanis to

which Ith. Thousan

refers.

(3. Admitting

that the actual price of silver in Califone is undoubtedly love then

lin Judia. I have to

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observe that the Treasumer, abbears lobe

render a mis

to the terms of freight and insurance from San Francisio, Jam

informed that the freight from London As the Straits Sett

and

is to percent, from

San Francisco to з ры Calcutt I fee

cent whilst the additional freight

from Calcutta tota

straits

commed

silver is to fer cent,

making 1 percent in

all that is

выходя

exact double the rate from London to the Straits. The

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