How can rulers provide a sufficient quantity of money to suffice for the needs of trade? The Provincial Treasurer, who is practically administrator of the civil government of the province, has brought his powerful intellect to bear closely upon this difficult problem. Long and fall proclamations releting tothe financial situation appear from time to time, showing that he is grappling with the difficulty with all earnestness, has issued paper money in the shape of notes ofa thousand cash and five hundred cash; he has granted to twenty-four pawnshops the privilege of issuing tallies each representing 100 or 200 cash, and he hes'put the coiners to work making brass cash Yy the old method, moulding not stamping them. These coins are very inferior in quality, containing much sand and brittle. There are in circulation a few brass cash made by the stamping process They are uniform in size, clearly stamped, and seemingly durable. But they are lighter in weight than they should be. A thousand cash of good. size will weigh about six catties; but the new stamped coins weigh only four catties to the thousand.
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