Crown Agents
to blame.
in this matter, I do not
understand how the
delivery of
hou
the six cases
the Phales, even
by
if they had
been detained in these Gibb. Livingston eher Lodowns
three months instead of three
weeks,
in brin
necessitated
a
delay
into operation the holele
bringing Stamp Ordinance.
The requisition from bong Kong for these Stores amongel other articles specified 17 dies of
different
}
different
values for impressed
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Stamps
and "presees ready to
be fixed for all the foregoing
dies.
letter
"
Mess" de la tue in their
of the ryth
17th December 1866 to the Crown Agents, copy of
which was enclosed
hime to you of the 9th April
last, pointed out that it was not requisite that a press should be furnished for Each die, that three preses would be sufficient, in which " a die night be changed
aud