50.87
No.
C.O.
12418
343
REC
X.
Brot S APR OF
Goverment House,
Hongkong,
9th
March, 1901.
Enclosure
Hoograme)
sir,
I have the honour to transmit for
your consideration the enclosed copy of a programme of
the proposed import of subsidiary coin into this Colony
during the current year, which has been drawn up by the
Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation, and which the Colonial Treasurer has advis-
ed should be carried out.
2.
•
If you approve this programme. and
if the mints in the United Kingdom are unable to issue
the coins, I have further the honour to request you to
be good enough to make the necessary arrangements for
minting the subsidiary coin in India.
3.
Pending your reply, I have advised
the Chief Manager of the steps which I have taken, in
order that the Agency of the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation in Calcutta may be ready to pur-
chase Silver for the mint and meet all bills presented
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
BCC++
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