The Archive · 1907

Subsidiary Coinage Again

Government Gazette" has at Inst the Government has ended by teging to therefrom it appears that

do something to mend the tion of agains that now here in regard to subsidiary coinn, It has been decided that Chinese ten and twenty-cent pieces shall be regarded in Hongkong a6 equal to 8/9 their face value. That is to say the Mexican dollar ed at about 1L1 cents io before, only two money will be regarded as legal tender in the Colony, Unless contrary arrangements have been made previously; and further no one shall be compelled to accept more than one dollar's worth of copper. In future, therefore, avy one can demand, in payment of a dollar's worth of wares, '111 cents.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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