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moment to the merchants whose Pok office accounts me settled monthly,
of the revenue received in dollars at 4½ that two third of office is received the From the Dollars as received the Colonial share is deducted and paid into the : Treasury in dollars at 4/2 the balance of the Dollars
2. - and fre 223 lose _ is paid into the Commissariat chest where it accumulates and will I suppore have eventually to be remitted to England - Thers the Colony derives the profit on the Portages paid in dollars and the Enverist Government bears the lose on those paid in Sterling which a bill on London, to me to be be by arrangement. in Sterling for the amount - calculating 2. cach dollar at 4/2" the rate at which it was received _ is purchased and remitted to England; the profit on the Dollars about 12 per cent being given by the Superial Government to the Colony. De Sterling throney received at the Post Office - there being no way which it can be bispored of without
30. appears mesmo an equitable I would suggest as a remedy that the Colony be allowed to provide postage stamps and that the portale rates be inseribed them not in Sterling but in cents at the rate of ½ to the Dollen;- (shus a fo rate will be 12 Cents). That the use there shamp of