CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7] — Page 503

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is desirons & appelying the samed

of

medifications to the rules which

Govern

the transmission of Pattern's cliveen the of Patterns between the

Huilid Kingdom and the Colonies, which

referred

d li

for perival

rival and report

Can the 1s

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Instant and are herein returnee,

I do myself the hover to state, having

carefully considered the modifications

proposed, that so far

as this Department

is concerned there can be no

objection te

their being saudioned, and also, as premioło

jin my

letter of the 21?" March 18by Me 12

on the subject of the transurission of Patterns,

the sistem

has been much more

mow boter

extensively

used in sending Patterns from the United Kingdom to this Colony tham grom the Colony to the United Shingeow;

I would

however remark that the changes

contemplated do not admit of Mustus

of Sea which are

Boves or

Glass

usually sent in Tin

Bottles being sent at the

reduced charge for patterns, and I thinst

this point avorthy of consideration,

as

if

these could be permitted to pass through

the

poss

it would be a

the Merchants of China.

I have, b,

great boon to

(signed) J. W. Snitcheer, Postmader Zercerale.

(Bruce Copy) MAAlexande

Acting Cenial Secretary