The Agra & United Service Bank
Limited
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401
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27 Cannon Street, London E.C.
2nd February 1863.
George Hamilton Esqr
Chancery Chambers,
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your
letter of the 30th Ulto
in which, by command
of the Lords
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury,
you request to be informed on what grounds, the Chairman of the London Committee of
this Bank represented, to
the Board of Trade in 1855 that the
Bank
was
"Empowered to carry on the
business of Banking in China and
elsewhere to the East of the Cape of
"Good Hope":
I have the honor, in reply to state
that the grounds upon which that
representation
was
made,
were, that the Bank