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    {
        "id": 286012,
        "series_id": 27,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine",
        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
        "series_use_hku_proxy": false,
        "document_key": "CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12]",
        "page_number": 215,
        "title": "CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "# C.S.O.N: 3395.\n\nHany Honny, 2b. Binam bor. 1874. Received 27 December, 1871.\n\nThe Assistant Controller to X. K. Clove Esq., Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell K.C.M.G.\n\n## Subsidiary Coins for Her Majesty's Forces.\n\nMemorandum as to the necessity of...\n\n### Enclosure No. in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 914 of 27 December, 1874.\n\nMemo (Copy) `1600/72` 213\n\nby the Auditor General\n\nThe subsidiary coins imported in 1864 and 1865 gave a handsome profit of £5 per cent in consequence of the high rate of exchange then ruling (14/0.7/4), and of the payment of Seigniorage, the premium on bullion, (1 per cent) cost of manufacture to the Mint (3 1/2 per cent), and Freight and Insurance (3 per cent).\n\nWith the present rate of exchange (14/4 1/2) which, it is likely to remain rather than advance, and the scarcity and dearness of bullion, we could not now anticipate...",
        "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12].txt",
        "external_url": "",
        "rank": 0
    }
]