714095-1866-GOVERNMENT-NOTIFICATION-NO-171 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH NOVEMBER, 1866.

The following results were obtained by the Chinese Assayers:-

One Hundred Hongkong Dollars weighed before being melted, equal to... 71 The same weighed after having been melted with an equal weight of Lead, refined, and cast into shoes of pure (Hai-Kwan) Sycee Silver, equal to.

Loss of weight

Value of One Hundred Taels' weight of Hongkong Dollars computed by the Chinese Bank Manager and Officials, according to the results exhibited above, equal in Hai-Kwan Sycee to..

Add allowance for residuum of Silver remaining incorporated with the Lead used in the Assay, and extractible by an after process; compensation calculated as equal to

Resulting Standard Value in Sycee...

457

Tacis.

Mace.. Candareens,

9

64

3

3

7

5.

Taels.

Mace.

Candareens. Cash.

89

0

89

9

4

The above is admitted as equivalent to Taels 90, or a standard of 900, as acknowledged in the annexed Certificate stamped with the seals of the Five Customs' Banks.

Hence One Hundred and Eleven Taels One Mace and One Candareen (Tls. 111.1.1) in Hongkong Dollars are held equivalent to One Hundred Taels (Tis. 100) of pure (Haikwan) Sycee, weight for weight.

Note. The weights used were the Hiang P'ing or Customs weights, which are declared to be Six Mace per Hundred (fo per cent) heavier than the usual money weights.

This acknowledged and signed in quintuplicate in English and Chinese, at Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate at Canton, on Friday, the 26th October, 1866.

同

(Signed,) CHAS. TOOKEY..

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輕

傾發治英

五耗底八 香五領

計耗九

年得

九足

月

十銀四銀

此

叉計現

將連鍋

十九

兩月

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通分

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(Signature of Low Shu,)

[L.S.] (Signed,)

計耗銀

伸輕壹新紋

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重對未配造

卽海鎔鉛銀

試五共得

錢得

海七

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一嗣將該銀壹百員配鉛同重鎔銷提凈平兌共得海關紋銀六十四兩三錢三分 銀號恒茂店經將香港新造銀員當面試驗核定成色兹將會驗事由詳細開列 仲海關紋銀八十九兩四錢四分四厘成

一香港新銀壹

連輕耗

計核香港

同治五年

英國領事官署內會同畫押

爲此會立約據明一切用

關銀原

九紋查銀

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九八

[銀九成正

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通共立五

另鍋底耗輕銀約四錢

伸得八九四四四成

傾得十足紋銀六十四兩三錢三分

足紋銀九成正

發來香港壹員洋銀賣百員重七十壹兩九錢二分

月十六 日

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{L.S.」 (Signed) WM. FREDK. MAYERS,

Fice-Consul in Charge.

(Signature of Ts'i T’ung Hao.)

WM. FREDк. MAYERS,

Vice-Consul in Charge.

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