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has consented to hold over their claim for this £10,000 from the 22 Instant to the 2200

proximo

at their minimum rate of discount--

at present however is 10

which at

for cent.

Jannes

annex a statement

of

shewing the Assets & Liabilities your Government so far as this Department is concerned The Acceptances of Agra - Mastermans Bank, amounting altogether to

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15,000 have been omitted in this statement, as they forn available Asset at present, and

are not likely to do so

time to come.

for

some

The assets amount only

to £20,000 whilst the liabilities

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(being £45,400) exceed the former day

₤25,400

more over the liabilities. are for the most part immediate, whilst the Assets do not mature for

some time.

This state of the Hong Kong. Account at this Office may

doubtless

be ascribed to a certain extent to

the failure of the Agra Masterman's Bank, but had that unfortunate

happened your

occurence not.

remittances would have been.

inadequate to meet the authorized

I have to request that

payments.

that you

of

call the early attention of the Governor of Hong Kong to this matter,

I have

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Wigned; M. C. Sargeannt