Com's Hall inte in any prohibited by law. I father that it is arrived not merely to deprive chopfend coms of
the statios of legal tada but to prohibit their bring Finders a accessed at all. The British Dollar (Unaffing) Nromance of 1895 does not seen so beyond making depped British others not a legal taon. Is there stray reason for going further in the case of Chopped Rexican orkars?
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March, 1916.
Just has handed over to me your letter
of the 3rd larch as to Chopped exican dollars in Vong Kong.
we could of course pass an ordinance
in Hong Kong prohibiting and penalising the chopping of Mexican dollars in future, but such prohibition could scarcely be made retrospective and applied to chopped "exican dollars already in circulation. Those dollars are good leal tender, at present, under the order in Council and it is a question whether an ordinance depriving them of that status would not be bad for conflict with the order in Council, having regard to the prerogative of the Crown in coinage matters.
As you say, in the case of the british dollar it was only necessary for the ordinance to
deprive
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