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Board of
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Offic
Copy
Sir,
4th Sloop Serpent
Portsmouth 6 May 1846
I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your
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letter of the 20th Inst : conveying
enclosures from the Treasury, likewise from
that on opening
Mint stating that on
Her Majesty's Mint
of the Boves of Sycee Lilver brought by WM.
the said boy was
found to be filled
Hoop Serpent under my.
and
Comm
that
with
Lon
Cunips of Lead instead of Silver
I have the honor to inform you that I was on deck at the time I received the Treasure from AM Ship Iris at Singapore's and the whole of the Boxes came on board in
.
a perfect state . I was likewise on deck when
transhipped from this Hoop, to be
They landed at Weeval, and
perfect state as
in the same they were when received, which M. Byron's
shows.
(of the Treasury / Certificate to me amply I by to assure their Lordships that not any one of the Treasury Boves could under
any circumstances have been opened while under
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my charge. _
The Seals, and other marks upon it
doubtless will clearly show that the of the Boy are the same as
Contents
shipped at Canton. _
The Secretary;
London
of the Admiralt
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and
I have be
:: Ligned) Mr Nevill
Copy of a Treasury Minute dated 12th May 1846. –
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when
Copy of this Lettin of its enclosure to the Master of the Mint for his information, with references to the Letter from this Board dated 9th Instant.
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