The reply given to the Ministry of Finance, stating that although half of the allocations of Her Majesty Pertevniyal Valide Sultan were paid in gold and half in Mecidiye, some of them were given in kuruş and some in sou, and that since the expenditures were made in gold and Mecidiye, gold and Mecidiye had to be purchased from Sarraf Begos Bey and a lot of silver coins had to be given in return, and therefore the allocation should be paid as before.