Manager Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China to Colonial Secretary-
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(Copies granted by Her Majesty and dated 3rd August 1881, 16th February 1859, and also Supplemental Charter of sixth August 1873)
I shall request our London Office to supply the Board of Treasury with answers to the several questions referred to, in their letter of 8th September.
They cannot well be replied to, by us as this is only a Branch Establishment.
I have to,
(Signed) George O. Pott
Manager Chartered Mercantile Bank of India London and China
Hong Kong, 29th November 1879.
The Honorable W. H. Marsh,
Colonial Secretary.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter no. 1450 dated 20th instant and to inform you that The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China carries on business under Imperial Authority, by virtue of a Royal Charter granted in 1857, and renewed last year (1878).
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