In the seamination of the Crown Agents Accounts, the Commissioner of Ankit have called for the Secretary of States. authority for the payment of the Freight and Insurance, in reply they have been informed
that it has
never
been the
practice to obtain separate
authorities
for sending
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Colony articles which had,
under the sanction
of
the
Secretary of State, been paid
for from Colonial funds; but they again demand the authority, stating that
as
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" Colonial Office letter of the 20 there
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a
separate authority for
" the shipment of a fation of the Stacs proemed by the Kinder,
Stores
"and as the only other Colonial Office Letters produced in respect
of
these Mint Stores were
for
the payment of certain specified
sums, it is considered that
the authority for the payments
now
in
question is still
wanting, and it is requested
that it
as the
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the only
may
was
be transmitted"
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the expenditure incuned to ship
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