316
and is ce
certainly
по
equivalent for the ricks
attacking to the system.
The importance of regard. ing safety
ао
the first
consideration in matter
connected with the
transmission of public
funds has been impressed
on me
than
more
ever
forcibly
by
the losses
and inconvenience
entailed on
several
Colonial Governments
by
by the purchase of bills!
of the late Oriental Rank
Corporation. There is
obviously
no
altemative
but to abandon
a
system
which is surrounded
with such
dangers,
notwithstanding that it
may
have had considera =
-tions of economy and
convenience to recommend
it hitherts.
5. In
arrwing
at the
decision that henceforth
the