A memorial from the Viceroy of Chihli appears in the Peking Gazette of the 17th of April on the subject of the coining of silver dollars at Tientsin; the additional machinery that will be required to that already in the arsenal for the coining of cash, with the cost, freight, and insurance of the new plant. This Jquestioa. thas been more or less dis eased previously and the Board of Revenue has had it under consideration. A censor, Chen Hsi-chang, recommended the establishment ofa mint for the coinage of dollars and also that the various ries should adopt similar measures. - His memorial see on the 15th of January. and an Imperial Edict was issued in ce therewith. (This Edict never appeared in the Gazette.) he Viceroy 0 -lunli had his attention called to the subject, and now says that clerks, porters "and others at the stations cash is scarce and silver cheap and merchants will be quite unable to withstand an official find it very difficult to transact business. remonstrance. Nothing short of foreign If large and small dollars (rounds) were station-masters will overcome the difficulty. coined and got into universal circulation, the people and merchants woald derive
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