CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 117

In the seamination of the Crown Agents Accounts, the Commissioner of Ankit have called for the Secretary of States. authority for the payment of the Freight and Insurance, in reply they have been informed

that it has

never

been the

practice to obtain separate

authorities

for sending

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Colony articles which had,

under the sanction

of

the

Secretary of State, been paid

for from Colonial funds; but they again demand the authority, stating that

as

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115 28 March

" Colonial Office letter of the 20 there

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a

separate authority for

" the shipment of a fation of the Stacs proemed by the Kinder,

Stores

"and as the only other Colonial Office Letters produced in respect

of

these Mint Stores were

for

the payment of certain specified

sums, it is considered that

the authority for the payments

now

in

question is still

wanting, and it is requested

that it

as the

It

the only

may

was

be transmitted"

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the expenditure incuned to ship

cefeditionely

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