CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901

Sufficient and is most suitable to the circumstances Exerting

Hong Kong

3. From the facts given in the enclosures to your despatch and in the letter from De La Rue & Co it appears that the additional apparatus which will be required for carrying this arrangement into effect will be as follows:

for postage Stamps

working die £50.0.0 Keyplate, 120 subjects £42.10.0 4 duty overprint flakes, 60 subjects £12.0.0 al £12.0.0 Each £48.0.0 for stamp duty Stamps working die £50.0.0 Key plate £42.10.0 Makes 10 overprint overprint al £15.0.0 Each £150.0.0 £353.0.0 Over Embossing die £10.0.0 96 duty plugs at 4/- Each £19.4.0 £412.4.0

Ensuring that only Embossing dies are employed, were 31 days, 12 months, Say 5 years

48 one, 2 (Two dies for Each duplicate) 96 at 4/- = £19.4.0

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4. Messrs. De La Rue and Co point out that it will be necessary for you to supply any vernacular, written inscription, which has to appear on the Stamp; and as soon as you supply them, the order for the apparatus will be put in hand

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