4
308
$400
only three or four hundred $30 or 3 dollars in interest, if the
• proposal of the Crown Agents to buy bills at a month's sight at the rate of 3/43/4 was
adopted.
3.
big
to call
Your Lordship's attention to the latter part of the Colonical Treasurer's report in which he requests that Your Lordship. should be informed "that the " mereantile members of the "Finance Committee of the in
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Legislative
Legislative Council take serious exception to the Crown Agents' "practice of charging this Colony Bank of England rates for discounting Bills. They
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state it can be done at
other Bank at lower rates.
any
I have the honour to be
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
5. Bowen