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and thirty-six thousand and forty dollars, were re-mitted from London by the house of Goldsmidtand Co., as a part of the first loan ; which sum wasrecoined and included in the coinage of 1825, andseems to account for the excess of gold coined inthat particular year being so far above every otherthat had preceded it. We have the same au-thority for the fact that about that time the UnitedMexican Company remitted from London threehundred thousand dollars in gold.
These amounts were thus nearly equal to thebars and ingots brought to the treasury in thoseyears; and we therefore may rest satisfied that theaverage annual amount of the produce of the minesin the twenty years from 1810 to 1829 could notexceed, if it amounted to, eleven million dollars.
In Guatimala , or as it has been recently de-nominated the Republic of Central America , itappears some small portion of both the metals havebeen produced and coined into money. Whateverof gold and silver had been collected in Guatimala was included in the returns from Mexico before1820. Since that period a mint has been esta-blished, whose operations may be judged of fromthe following account, obtained by a late visitorin that country, who, from his official situationmust have been enabled to procure correct in-formation \