(2) The Governor of Chekiang reports the despatch of a supply of copper cash for the use of the Government at Poking. Some time since the Memorialist forwarded to Peking specimens of two kinds of cash, the one coined by machinery and the other cast in the erdiaary way. In reply there was issued a Decree ordering him to adopt the ordinary fashion of casting, and to manufacture a quantity as soon as possible. He afterwards received an enquiry from the Board of Revenue, asking how many cash he could make a month, and what number he could send forward before the closing of the Tientsin River. He referred the matter to the officers in charge of the mint, who told him that as the work had only been commenced recently, the coins could not be turned out very rapidly, and twenty thousand strings were all that could be managed within the given time. He therefore wrote a reply to the Board to that effect. He has since sent off
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