4 2 6 5

of #50,000 a balance accumulates beyond local requirements,

the Treasurer will at once

report the fact and the Crown Agents will be requested by telegraph to

resume their more

frequent drawings.

4.

It is evident that

the heavy drafts at irregular intervals by the Crown Agents which Your Lordship desired to obviate by a system of biweekly

the biweekly drawings, caused by the expenditure on

subsidiary coins, and Mr. Mitchell-Innes suggests

that it would seem desirable to treat that

account by itself, and he remarks that if

the Government account has

occasionally to be overdrawn here (under a system of

monthly drawings) to meet drafts on

account of

subsidiary coins in transit,

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