The Censor Yang Chung-yi complains that the crafty traders and cash shops are in the habit of refusing light-weight copper cash when offered to them by persons who deal with them and prays that delinquents be hereafter sternly punishe?, etc. The Commandant of the Peking Gendamerie, the Governor of Peking, and the Censors of the Five Cities of the Capital xre hereby commanded to make strict search for cash counterfeiters who must be severely punished for such crimes, and at the same time orders are to be sent to traders and cash shops prohibiting them from refusing to receive the cash which are usually current in the markets.
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