CO129-510-1 Correspondence concerning securities held against note issues by various banking corporations 28-2-1928 - 16-10-1928 — Page 38

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Hong Kong

3rd January, 1928.

We certify that, on the 31st December 1927,

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation held in

their Treasuries on behalf of the Hongkong Government

as reserve against their note issue the following

coins:-

British Dollars Fifteen million

eight hundred and fifty thousand....$15.850.000

Clean Old Mexican Dollars Nine million nine hundred thousand...

Clean Old Mexican Dollars One Hundred and fifty thousand (New Coins)..

9,900.000

150,000.

$25.900.000

(sga) E.R. Hallifax

Colonial Secretary.

(sgd)

C. McI. Messer.

Colonial Treasurer.

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