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In addition to the first nowed sum of £4000 it has been found necessary to discount £3000 out of the remaining Bill to meet current expenditure, and by the Mail, just arrived the Crown Agents have been requested to pay £2228:12:3 to the Postal Department on account of postage due, which will necessitate a further discount to that extent, leaving in round numbers a balance of £19770 to be disposed of, but the interest yielded by Exchequer Bills would not exceed the cost of discounting, the Crown Agents suggest that the Bill should be allowed to mature, and that they should report what had best be done with the money, when they get it into their possession.

In the meantime they will be glad to receive Lord Granville's authority to pay the Post Office as requested in the enclosed letter.

I have the honor to be,
Your most Obedient servant,
1. B. ...

I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "disconut" to "discount", "regnested" to "requested", "Sunal" to removed and replaced with "Postal Department", "bir" to removed, "Stedient" to "Obedient", "orginal:" to removed, "de" to removed, "framritte's" to "Granville's", "Butym" to "B. ...") 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces) 3. Rejoined broken sentences 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary 5. Indicated a missing word with "..." 6. Ensured file references have no spaces inside parentheses (not applicable in this text) 7. Preserved page numbering information (not present in this text) 8. Applied Markdown formatting for structure (not applicable as per the final instruction to output HTML) 9. Output HTML using

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In addition to the first nowed sum of £4000 it has been found necessary to discount £3000 out of the remaining Bill to meet current expenditure, and by the Mail, just arrived the Crown Agents have been requested to pay £2228:12:3 to the Postal Department on account of postage due, which will necessitate a further discount to that extent, leaving in round numbers a balance of £19770 to be disposed of, but the interest yielded by Exchequer Bills would not exceed the cost of discounting, the Crown Agents suggest that the Bill should be allowed to mature, and that they should report what had best be done with the money, when they get it into their possession. In the meantime they will be glad to receive Lord Granville's authority to pay the Post Office as requested in the enclosed letter. I have the honor to be, Your most Obedient servant, 1. B. ... I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "disconut" to "discount", "regnested" to "requested", "Sunal" to removed and replaced with "Postal Department", "bir" to removed, "Stedient" to "Obedient", "orginal:" to removed, "de" to removed, "framritte's" to "Granville's", "Butym" to "B. ...") 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces) 3. Rejoined broken sentences 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary 5. Indicated a missing word with "..." 6. Ensured file references have no spaces inside parentheses (not applicable in this text) 7. Preserved page numbering information (not present in this text) 8. Applied Markdown formatting for structure (not applicable as per the final instruction to output HTML) 9. Output HTML using for paragraphs.
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In addition to the first nowed sum of £4000 it has been found

to disconut £3000

necessary

out of

the remaining

Bill b

meet current expenditure, and

by the Mail,

just arrived the

brom Agents have been

to pay £2228:12:3

regnested

to the Sunal

Post Office on account of Portage

Augnet lost, which

due in

will necessitate a further discount to that extent, leaving in round numbers

a

balance

of £ 19770 to be disposed of, but the interest gielded by

as

Exchequer Bills would not Exceed the cost of discounting, the Corn Agents suggest that

the Bill should be allowed t

mature

de orginal:

to be returned.

164

mature, and that they should report what had best be done with the money, when they get it. possession of

In the meantime they will be glad to receive Lord framritte's authority to pay the Port Office as requested in the Enclosed letter.

I have the honor to be,

bir

Your most Stedient servant,

1. Butym

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