CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 243

ALL COMMUNICATIONS

TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.

2300144

0.0.

31545

Rece

بی داشتیم

Rage 28 SEP 00

236

DOWNING STREET, LONDON.

27th September 190 0.

Hong Kong - Coin

Feun 503.

sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

your letter of the 17th instant No.30014/1900 relative to the weight of the silver subsidiary coin recently supplied to Hong Kong by the Birmingham Mint.

We have been in communication with the Birmingham Mint by which the coins were supplied and with the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint under whose inspection the coinage has been executed, and I enclose copies of their replies.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your Obedient Servant,

2

Enclosures.

The Royal Mint to Crown Agents 26th September 1900. The Birmingham Mint to Crown Agents 20th September 1900.

hder Secretary of State,

&c.

&c. 20.

Colonial Office.