371
Shave &c.
Signed) W. J. Mercer.
Colonial Treasurer.
(True Copy) Mame
Colonial Secretary.
A Surplus having gradually accumulated in the Chest of the Treasurer, the same has been transferred to the Credit of Colony, being in amount: $32. 8. 22.
£32.8s.4½d. Sterling)
The principal cause from which this surplus arose was the receipt from the Commissariat: at different times of a quantity of Spanish Dollars of a better than the usual description, being Sycee Dollars and not like the other Spanish Dollars, but full, with only the usual Chops or stamps of the shroffs, through whose hands they had