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the several Consuls, I am
Commanded
by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request you
inform the Duke of
that a
Newcastle
modification of those instructions was subsequently suggested by the Commissioners of Audit, viz that the sums required should be issued from the Treasury (on Certificate of the Auditor General), to the Colonial Treasurer, to be by him remitted to the several Ports.
I
Que
the
directed to transmit to
you a copy of a letter from the Treasury Office dated 25th April last, shewing
that this modification of
the
arrangement
was communicated to
I.W. Bruce. I am, Sir,
your obedient servant,
Les Allemand
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