THE GOVERNMENT 
OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
Premises to pay the bearer on demand at Singapore. 
TEN AO CENTS. 
Local Currency for Value received. 
(Signature ) 
Treasurer. 
The serial number appears in black at the two top corners of 
the note. 
On the back of the note appears the representation of a dragon 
in White and pale green and the value in English, Chinese, Tamil and 
Malay in the four corners. : 
By September 22nd, 1920 the value of these notes issued was 
$680,000. The locally manufactured ten cent notes were exten- 
sively counterfeited and a great many of these forgeries circulated 
side by side with the genuine ones. 
On January 21st, 1918 an issue of Twenty-five cent notes com- 
menced. These were prepared at the Government Survey Office at 
Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States. (Pl. IV. figs. 6 and 7). 
The value of these notes in circulation by September 22nd, 1920 was 
$39,825. I was recently informed that these twenty-five cent 
notes were being withdrawn from circulation as occasion permitted. 
The twenty-five cent note was a better looking production than 
the loeal ten cent paper currency. They measured about 108 x 75 
mm. The material was a fairly thin white paper closely striped with 
parrow perpendicular pale pink lines. “On the face was first printed 
an elaborate ornamental design (in orange) and outside this (in 
black) a border of heavy spandrels with the figures “25” in white 
in a black circle at the top corner and “Cts” in similar circles 
at the bottom corners: midway on the right, and left and at the bot- 
tom, in Tamil, Malay and Chinese respectively and in black on white 
scrolls “25 Cents.” Over the orange pattern and printed in black: 
R. A. Soe., No. 85, 1922. 
