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HJ I -— II ^■i,ii jn i jrji i , T 
 
 TREASURY INSTRUCTIONS 
 
 FOR 
 
 THE GUIDANCE OF 
 
 THE 
 
 AGENTS-GENERAL FOE CROWN COLONIES, 
 
 5th MABCH, 1860. 
 
 LONDON: 
 PKINTED BY W. MITCHENER, 23, RED LION STREET, HOLBORN. 
 
 1860. 
 
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2638^ 
 
 TRBAsanY Chambers, 
 
 6th March, 1860. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I am directed by the Lord's Commissioners 
 of Her Majesty's Treasury, to transmit to you the 
 enclosed Instructions which have been prepared by 
 the Commissioners of Audit, and which have been 
 approved by their Lordships ; and I am to desire that 
 you will adopt the same, for your guidance in the 
 transaction of the business of your agency. 
 
 You will observe that there are two lists ot 
 Colonies attached to these Instructions, one of " Crown 
 Colonies," to which the Instructions are to be strictly 
 applied, and the other of " Eepresentative Colonies," 
 the agency for which i" at present under your charge, 
 and to which the instructions are to be applied as far 
 as practicable. 
 
 Their Lordships are of opinion, that, so long 
 as the Agency for Representative Colonies is in your 
 
hands, the Instructions should be acted upon generally, 
 provided that they do not clash with any directions 
 that you may have received from the Governments of 
 those Colonies. 
 
 With a view to a distinction being made in 
 this matter, their Lordships request that you will 
 in future, furnish the Commissioners of Audit with 
 the Accounts of these Colonies separately from the 
 transactions relatii\g to Crown Colonies. 
 
 I am, &c., 
 (Signed) GEO. A. HAMILTON. 
 
 i 
 
 To Edward Baenaed, 
 
 and 
 
 Peneose G. Julyan, Esqrs., 
 
 Agents- General for Crown Colonies ^ 
 
 C, Adelpbi Terrace, London. 
 
INSTEUCTIONS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 AGENTS-GENERAL FOR CROWN COLONIES, 
 
 FOR THBUl 
 
 GUIDA.NCE IN THE rECUNIABY TRANSACTIONS 
 OF THEIR AGENCIES. 
 
 1. All monies, remittances, and bills, Receipt of 
 receivable for the service of the Crown ^^^'^'^''* 
 Colonies, with the agency of which you are 
 charged, are to be paid in, remitted, or 
 endorsed over to your joint account at the 
 
 Bank of England. 
 
 2. You will keep a cash hook, a bill book, Books to ba 
 a lodger ; and a journal if it should be Ibuutl ^^^ 
 that the cash book cannot be made to answer 
 
 the purpose of a journal. 
 
 3. You will keep a register of any dobon- Rt^ister of 
 
 J ii • i i. • • I p 1 • I Deboutui'cs. 
 
 tures, the interest or pimcipal oi which may 
 be payable by you. 
 

 
 Classifica- The debentures are to be registered in 
 
 tion of ^ ^ ° , 
 
 Debentures, their separate classes, according to the service 
 for which they have bee'; issued, and the 
 register is to record the date and No. of each 
 debenture, and the date on which it is 
 terminable. 
 
 Entries in 
 Cash Book 
 
 4. In your casli book you will enter day 
 by day every receipt and payment of what- 
 ever description, in its actual order of occur- 
 rence, giving the date of every such receipt 
 and payment. 
 
 Balancing 
 Cash Book 
 
 Bendering 
 accounts 
 
 Certificate 
 
 5. The cash book is be cast and balanced 
 at the end of every month, and a copy of the 
 same, together with all documents and 
 vouchers in support thereof, forwarded to the 
 Commissioners for auditing the public ac- 
 counts on or before the last day of the 
 following month. 
 
 A certificate must be written at the foot 
 of this monthly account, and signed by you 
 in the following form : — 
 
 We hereby certify that the foregoing 
 account is just and true according to the 
 best of our knowledge and belief. 
 {^Accountants^ Signatures) 
 
6. You will on or before the 10th day Monthly 
 
 ^ return of 
 
 of each month, make a return to the Uom- balances 
 missioners of audit of the amount of balances 
 in hand on the last day of the preceding 
 month on account of each Colony, and of the 
 probable demands thereupon, and you will Statement of 
 
 * r 7 J Investments. 
 
 append thereto a statement of the funds 
 invested in respect of each Colony, supported 
 in the case of Exchequer Bills by the bank 
 certificate. 
 
 7. As regards the Colon\- of Mauritius, Balance of 
 
 ° - "^ . Mauritius. 
 
 you will whenever the balance in your hands 
 exceeds £6000, invest in Exchequer Bills 
 or such public securities as the Secretary of 
 state may from time to time direct all sums 
 beyond that amount. 
 
 8. "When an order may be given for an Evidence of 
 
 . i , 1 J i xi J... Investments. 
 
 investment, you are to produce at the audit 
 office the transfer paper, deposit receipt, or 
 other document, to prove that the investment 
 or deposit has been made as directed, such 
 document is to be so transmitted as soon as Treasury au- 
 the order has been executed. No transfer JJe'gf^fp^^"^ 
 
 or 
 
 or sale of such investments should take place transfer of 
 
 '- mveatments. 
 
 without the authority of the Lords Commis- 
 sioners of II. M. Treasury 
 
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 8 
 
 ^raUcLfunt ^* ^^^ ^^^^ foiward to the Commissioners 
 of classified for auditing the public accounts, on or before 
 the 31st day of March in each year, a general 
 account of the classified service transactions 
 for the previous year ending 31st December, 
 with respect to the whole of the Colonies, 
 the agency of which may be placed under 
 your charge, shewing the receipts and pay- 
 ments in respect of each Colony. 
 
 Eeceipts to 
 be vouclied 
 
 Sums re- 
 ceived witli- 
 out advice 
 
 10. All items of receipt are to be vouched 
 by the authority under which the money was 
 received, aud by the correspondence or other 
 explanatory documents relating thereto. 
 
 Should any sums be remitted to you with- 
 out letters of advice, or sufficient information 
 respecting the nature of the remittance, you 
 will forthwith notify the receipt of the sums 
 remitted to the Governor of the Colony from 
 which the remittance may have been made, 
 representing the omission, and requesting 
 information on the subject ; and a copy of 
 such representation is to be annexed to your 
 account. 
 
 Expondituro 11. All items of expenditure are to bo 
 vouched ° supported by the proper authorities and to bo 
 
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 vouched in accordance with the following 
 regulations : — 
 
 12. You are to take receipts duly stamped Stamped 
 
 ■^ . receipts. 
 
 for all payments made by you, unless in cases 
 where such receipts may be by law exempt 
 from stamp duty. 
 
 The receipts are to specify on what account Form of 
 the money is paid, and, in the instance of taken, 
 salaries or pensions, the rates of the same, 
 and the period in respect of which the 
 payment is^made. 
 
 13. When any payment is claimed by 
 the attorney or other representatives of the 
 person to whom the money is due, you will 
 take care that a sufficient legal authority is 
 produced by such attorney or representative ; 
 you will cause the same to be registered in 
 tho Audit Office, previously to the payment 
 being made, and you will observe that any 
 assignment or power which, from its having 
 been executed abroad, may not have been 
 stamped, is to be duly stamped in this 
 country, in default of which no payment can 
 be legally made to tho holder. 
 
 Payment to 
 an Attorney. 
 
 Powers of 
 Attorney to 
 bo registered 
 
 Powers of 
 Attorney to 
 be stamped. 
 
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 Eequisitions X4. Upon the receipt of any requisition 
 for Crown from the Colonial Governments for stores, 
 you will submit the same to the Secretary of 
 State for the Colonies, together with an 
 estimate of the probable expense to be in- 
 curred in procuring and transmitting such 
 stores to the Colony; and you will not 
 consider yourself at liberty to comply with 
 any such requisition until the pleasure of the 
 Secretary of State shall have been signified 
 to you thereon. This regulation applies only 
 to Crown Colonies. 
 
 Stores how 
 to be 
 procured. 
 
 Medicines in 
 certain cases 
 to be exempt 
 from fore- 
 going rule. 
 
 Stores 
 
 valued at less 
 than £100 
 
 15. You are to procure all such stores by 
 public tender and open competition, or by 
 applying to three or more different trades- 
 men for a list of the net cash prices at which 
 they would supply the articles required ; in 
 which latter case the lowest tender is to be 
 accepted. The several tenders or lists are to 
 be sent with the accounts. 
 
 Medicines, however, are to be excepted 
 from the above rule when procured from the 
 Apothecaries' Company. 
 
 In cases where the value of the articles 
 required shall be less than £100, it shall not 
 be compulsory on the Agents to call for 
 tenders. 
 
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 10, In any case in which articles are under 
 special instructions, procured from a par- 
 ticular tradesman, a similar tender is to be 
 obtained previously to the order being given. 
 In any case, however, where the Agent shall 
 consider it more to the advantage of the 
 Service to obtain stores otherwise than by 
 tender, he will be at liberty to report the 
 circumstances to the Secretary of State, and 
 request authority for departing from the 
 regulations 15 and 16. It will only be 
 necessary to apply to the Lords Commis- 
 sioners of H. M. Treasury upon extraordinary 
 
 Stores pro- 
 cured under 
 special in- 
 structions. 
 
 Secretary of 
 State for the 
 Colonies may 
 authorize a 
 departure 
 from Articles 
 15&16 
 
 occasions. 
 
 When the 
 Lords of the 
 Treasury are 
 to be applied 
 to. 
 
 17. All charges for articles purchased invoices how 
 are. to be vouched by the requisition or other vouched.; 
 authority for sending out the supply, and 
 also by bills of particulars and bills of lading, 
 or other sufficient evidence of the actual 
 shipment for the Colony, and by a copy of 
 the letter submitting the requisition to the ^wi^ of ud 
 Secretary of State, and by the authority of i°g' policies 
 
 , . . "^ of insurance 
 
 trie latter any disbursements included in a and shipping 
 tradesman's bill, or incurred by you for 
 insurance, duties, and shipping charges, are 
 
 notes. 
 
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 to be vouched by the policies of insurance 
 and the Shipping Broker's Notes. 
 
 Fees, Cora- 
 miesion, &c. 
 
 18. When any fees, commission, or other 
 charges, are included in an account, as having 
 been paid by the person rendering such 
 account, you will require and produce with 
 the account, a receipt or certificate from the 
 person entitled to receive payment, together 
 with any other documents to show that the 
 charge has been properly incurred. 
 
 si 
 
 Interest on 
 Dobenturea. 
 
 Cancelled 
 Coupons. 
 
 Cancelled 
 Debentures 
 
 Cancelled 
 Coupons or 
 Debentures 
 required by 
 the Colonies 
 
 1 9 . All receipts for interest on debentures 
 are to be accompanied by a statement show- 
 ing the period of interest, and the particular 
 class as well as No, of the debenture, in 
 respect of which the interest is claimed, — 
 the cancelled coupons are also to accompany 
 the receipts. 
 
 When debentures are paid off, the can- 
 celled debentures are to be transmitted, 
 accompanied by receipts, whenever the prin- 
 cipal may be payable to an individual or to 
 order. 
 
 Whenever cancelled coupons or debentures 
 are required by the Colonial Governments to 
 be returned to them, they should be for- 
 
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 warded to the office of the Commissioners of 
 Audit for examination, and recordj previously 
 to their being transmitted to the respective 
 Colonies. 
 
 20. Yl 1 will not pay to any officer who 
 may be absent from the Colony on leave or 
 otherwise, any portion of his salary or allow- 
 ance, unless a letter from the Chief Secretary 
 or other proper officer in the Colony be 
 produced to you, notifying the leave of 
 absence granted, accompanied by a certificate 
 from the Colonial Treasurer or Paymaster, 
 stating the period up to which any salary or 
 allowance may have been paid to the absentee, 
 previously to his quitting the Colony, and 
 also specifying the rate of payment ; which 
 documents you will submit to the Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies for his directions 
 thereon, and you will consider such docu- 
 ments together with the Secretary of State's 
 authority as necessary vouchers for the first 
 issue of any salary or allowance in this 
 country. 
 
 Salary of 
 Officer ab- 
 sent on leave 
 
 Certificate 
 
 fromColonial 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Eate of 
 payment. 
 
 Secretary of 
 States au- 
 thority for 
 first issue of 
 salary. 
 
 21. Should the above mentioned docu- issue of 
 ments not be produced to you, you will, stpTnd'ed in 
 notwithstanding any authority for the issue ^'^^^^^°^^^*- 
 
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 of salary or allowance which the absentee 
 may have obtained from the Secretary of 
 State, suspend making payments in respect 
 thereof until you shall have represented to 
 the Secretary of State the defect in the 
 vouchers required for the admission of the 
 charges in your accounts ; and you will then 
 be guided by such special instructions as you 
 may thereupon receive from the Secretary of 
 State, and these instructions will be necessary 
 vouchers for the admission of any payment 
 which may be made by you under the cir- 
 cumstances referred to. 
 
 Advance of 
 salary to 
 absentees. 
 
 Certificate to 
 be granted 
 to Oliicers 
 newly ap- 
 pointed, or 
 returning to 
 a Colony 
 after leave. 
 
 22. No salary or allowance is to be issued 
 to any absentee in advance, or for a period 
 after the expiration of the term for which he 
 may h^ve obtained leave of absence, unless 
 he shall produce a special authority to that 
 effect, which authority is to be annexed to 
 your accounts. 
 
 23.T0 any officer newly appointed to the 
 Colonial Service, or returning to the Colony 
 after leave, you will grant a certificate, speci- 
 fying the rate and amount of any salary or 
 allowance, and the nature of the allowance 
 
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 that may have been issued to him, and the 
 period for which such issue may have been 
 made, and further stating whether such 
 advance or allowance is to be accounted for 
 in the Colony, and you will be careful not to 
 make any further payment on account of the 
 salary, or allowance to which such certificate 
 may refer, without first withdrawing and 
 cancelling the same. 
 
 24. Should you be required to make any Military pay 
 issue of Military pay or allowance to officers to Colonial 
 or men°any Colonial corps, or pensions to °^^'* 
 the widow or children of such officers or 
 men, you will, in making the payments, be 
 guided by the Army Eegulations, and you 
 will invariably call for the several certifi- 
 cates and other documents required by those 
 regulations. . 
 
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 26. In the event of your being authorized Pensions to 
 to pay pensions to retired officers or other Officers and 
 
 lA' IQOWS 
 
 persons, whether out of monies provided 
 from particular funds, such as the Ceylon 
 Civil Fund, or from the general Kevenuos of 
 the Colonies, or to pay pensions to widows 
 of officers of Colonial corps under the Army 
 
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 regulations, you will in all cases where the 
 Magistrate's pensioners do not apply for their pensions in 
 or Minister's person, require a declaration before a masris- 
 
 certiucates. r j ^ o 
 
 trate or other competent authority, or a 
 certificate from the Minister or Church- 
 wardens of the Parish where such Pensioners 
 reside, as to their being alive at the time 
 the payment became due. 
 
 Certificate of 
 
 personal 
 
 appearance 
 
 "Wlien par- 
 ticular con- 
 ditions are 
 attached to 
 pensions. 
 
 Authority 
 required for 
 special pay- 
 ments. 
 
 26. If the pensioner appear personally to 
 receive his pension, you will cause a certifi- 
 cate of such personal appearance to be 
 endorsed on, or attached to, the receipt for 
 the pension, which certificate is to be signed 
 by you, or by the person making the payment. 
 
 Should any particular conditions be at- 
 tached to the grant of the pension, you will, 
 in all such cases, require a declaration or 
 other sufiicient proof, as to the said conditions 
 ha-ving been complied with. 
 
 27. All special payments for the service 
 of the Colonies, which do not come under the 
 foregoing heads, must be supported by the 
 special authority for the same, and such 
 authority, together with any correspondence 
 with the Colonial Government, or with any 
 
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 other persons, which may tend to explain the 
 transactions, is to be produced to the Com- 
 missioners of Audit, together with the 
 vouchers for the payment. 
 
 28. When in any case the same authority Successive 
 is to serve for a succession of payments, the the same^ 
 period of the account and the number of the a^t^^^^ty- 
 first voucher should bo roferred to on the 
 receipts for all subsequent payments. 
 
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 29. You will endeavour to make suchArrange- 
 arrangements with the Governors of those Governors of 
 Colonies with the Agency of which you may gp^gcting Se 
 be charged, as will ensure your being fur- F^V^^^'^ °^ 
 nished with sufficient funds, by remittances 
 from each Colony. Should remittances be 
 made to you, or directions given to you to 
 invest the moneys of any Colony in consols 
 or oth»i\' securities, you are not to consider iJ^emittances 
 
 - for invest- 
 
 yourself at liberty to delay such investment, ment. 
 or to apply any portion of such funds to the 
 temporary service of another Colony under 
 article 30. 
 
 30. You. are at liberty to make advances Advances 
 from your general balance for the service of baian?et'^^^^ 
 
Advances to 
 be advised 
 
 Advances to 
 he reported 
 to the Sec- 
 retary of 
 State. 
 
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 any Colony, provided the amount be properly 
 adjusted on the receipt of remittances from 
 the particular Colony on whose account the 
 advances may have been made, and you will 
 take care to give timely advice of the 
 advances to the authorities in each case, in 
 order that no delay may occur in the adjust- 
 ment of the same. 
 
 You are also to report for the sanction of 
 the Secretary of State all advances made on 
 this account. 
 
 Advaaces 3], You are not to exercise the above 
 
 not to be 
 
 made ir cer- powcr of making advances until the funds in 
 
 tam cases. ii« 1 j'» jji i«i 
 
 this country appertainmg to the particular 
 Colony are exhausted. 
 Sale of funds If howcvei*, it should appear to you 
 
 separately 
 
 invested. inexpedient to effect a sale of funds sepa- 
 rately invested, you will report the special 
 circumstances for the consideration and di- 
 rection of the Secretary of State. 
 
 Acceptance 
 of bills 
 drawn hj 
 Crown 
 Colpnics. 
 
 32. You will not accept any bills drawn 
 upon you, or upon any former Colonial Agents 
 by the Governor of any of the Crown 
 Colonies without obtaining the previous 
 sanction of the Secretary of State for that 
 
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 purpose, and you will make all bills payable 
 at the Bank of England, out of the funds of 
 your general account there, .subject to the 
 directions contained in the preceding in- 
 structions. 
 
 33. In drawing upon your general account Cheques how 
 at the Bank, the cheques may be signed by *° ^' ^"'''''' 
 either of the joint agents, and every cheque 
 is to be countersigned by the assistant agent 
 or gentleman whose duty for the time being 
 it shall be to enter them. 
 
 34. Each agent is at liberty to retain in Payment of 
 his own hands, or at his private bankers, a "^r "^^'^ 
 sum not exceeding, at any time, £200 for 
 payments under £5. 
 
 You will deliver the originals of all Delivery of 
 authorities and other documents, with your anShori- 
 account, to the Commissioners for auditing *'^'* 
 the public accounts. 
 
 In those instances in which peculiar cir. 
 cumstances may prevent your so doing, you 
 are to state those circumstances, and to 
 transmit duly authenticated copies of such 
 original authorities. 
 

 COLONIES 
 
 TO BE 
 
 CONSIDEEED AS CEOWN COLONIES, 
 
 TO WHICH THE 
 
 FOREGOING INSTRUCTIONS 
 
 ARE TO BE STRICTLY APrLIED. 
 
 Ceylon 
 Mauritius 
 Western Australia 
 Gibraltar 
 
 Malta (partly representative). 
 
 Natal (ditto) 
 Labuan 
 Sierra Leone 
 Gambia 
 Gold Coast 
 Hong Kong 
 Trinidad 
 
 St. Lucia 
 
 Bahamas \ Crown Fuuda 
 
 Turks Islands) only. 
 
 Jamaica ) Remittances 
 
 ^ J \ and luvest- 
 
 b-renada Vents for loans 
 
 Bermuda, Convict Service only. 
 
 British Guiana ^P'^'^^T f-^Pf " 
 
 j->xxuxK)Ai. v^uxuuu, sentative) 
 
 British Columbia 
 British Kaffraria 
 St. Helena 
 Falkland Islands 
 Heligoland 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE COLONIES 
 
 TO wnicn THH 
 
 FOREGOING INSTRUCTIONS 
 
 ARE TO BE API'LIED WHEN PRACTICABLE. 
 
 Victoria 
 
 Tasmania 
 
 Capo of Good Hope 
 
 Now Zealand 
 
 New Brunswick 
 Newfoundland 
 St. Kitts 
 Vuncouvcrs Island 
 
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 21 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PEIlSrCIPAL SEEVICES 
 
 PEBFOBMED Bf THE 
 
 AGENTS-GENEEAL FOR CROWN COLONIES. 
 
 FINANCIAL. 
 
 Disposal of Colonial Goverament Debentures 
 ' Eeceiving remittances for general purposes 
 
 Ditto Half-yearly dividends on Public Stocks 
 Ditto Interest on other Investments 
 Payment of Interest on Colonial Debentures 
 Ditto ditto on Public Loans 
 Ditto on account of Sinking Funds 
 Ditto Guaranteed interest on Railways and other 
 
 Public Works 
 Ditto Bills of Exchange 
 
 Ditto Half Salaries to Colonial Officers on leave of 
 absence 
 
 Ditto Pensions to retired Colonial Officers and to 
 Widows 
 
 Ditto for supplies of every kind 
 Investments in the Public Funds 
 Deposits on interest in Joint Stock Banks 
 
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 SUPPLIES 
 
 PROCURING AND FORWARDING 10 THE COLONIES THE 
 FOLLOWING ARTICLES. 
 
 Anchors and Chains 
 
 Asphalte 
 
 Arms, Rifles, Swords and 
 Pistols, &c. 
 
 Agricultural Implements 
 
 Books — Printed and 
 Account 
 
 Bank Notes 
 
 Bricks 
 
 Coals 
 
 Chemicals of all kinds 
 
 Clothing, Local Corps, 
 Police, Prison, Hos- 
 pital, and Asylum 
 
 Cloth, and Materials for 
 making clothing 
 
 Cement 
 
 Canvas 
 
 Copper Coins 
 
 Cranes 
 
 Dredging Vessels 
 
 Dies and Crests for Public 
 Bodies 
 
 Distilling Apparatus 
 Diving ditto 
 Engines, Steam, &c. 
 Engineers' Tools 
 Fire Engines 
 Glass of all kinds 
 Gunpowder 
 Hemp 
 Hardwares 
 Iron of all kinds 
 
 Bridges 
 
 Buildings 
 
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 Boats 
 
 „ Gates and Railings 
 
 „ Vessels 
 Ironmongery, general 
 Lead 
 Leather 
 Life Boats, and apparatus 
 
 for saving life 
 Light House apparatus and 
 
 Lanterns 
 Lathes, Duplex, &c. 
 
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 Metals of all kinds 
 Medicines 
 
 Machinery of all kinds 
 Mathematical Instru- 
 ments 
 Meat, Salt, Navy 
 Meats preserved 
 Moorings for Ships 
 Oils, Lighthouse and 
 
 Linseed 
 Paints 
 Pitch 
 Plant for "Railways, Gas, 
 
 and Water Works 
 Plates for Debentures, 
 Bonds, Bank Notes, and 
 Postage Stamps 
 Paper 
 
 Postage Stamps 
 Photographic Apparatus 
 
 Police equipments 
 Eope of all kinds 
 Stationery of all kinds 
 Saddlery and equipments 
 
 for mounted corps 
 Slates and Tiles 
 Surgical Instruments 
 Sub-Marine Telegraph 
 
 Cables 
 Steam Vessels 
 Timber, various 
 
 „ Creosoted 
 Tools, mechanical self 
 
 acting and other . 
 Telegraph apparatus 
 Tin sheet and Block 
 Tallow 
 Tar 
 
 Vessels, of various kinds 
 Zinc and other Metals 
 
 INCIDENTAL DUTIES. 
 
 Custom House duties of all kinds 
 Warehousing Goods 
 Securing Freights 
 Insurances, Marine and Fire 
 
 Instituting enquiries respecting persons and property 
 in the Colonies. 
 
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 Note. — Marine iosurances are effected at an advantage of 15 per 
 cent, as compared with Mercantile Agencies, viz., 5 per cent, 
 brokerage, and 10 per cent, discount allowed by Insurance 
 Offices to Brokers for introducing business. These allow- 
 ances are credited by the A gents- General to the several 
 Colonies, by deduction on the face of the accounts. 
 
 All trade discounts are deducted in like manner. 
 
 In the execution of orders for Vessels, Bridges, and Engineering 
 "Works generally, properly qualified professional men 
 are employed by the Agents-General (when not selected 
 by the Colony) to draw up the contracts and specifications 
 and to see that the work is properly performed. It is 
 preferred, however, that the Colonies should select their 
 own Engineers. 
 
 Arms, Clothing, Tools, and Hardwares, are inspected by expe- 
 rienced practical viewers, either at the Tower or on the 
 premises where the packing is carried out. 
 
 Goods in transit are invariably insured. 
 
 All investments, which take place by direction of the Treasury, 
 or the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on account of 
 sinking funds, guaranteed loans, and superannuation funds, 
 &c., &c., are made in the names of three gentlemen selected 
 by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. 
 
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 l^atthcrm to l^t ^gcnrg — 
 BANK OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Stohtrs— 
 Messbs. MULLENS & MARSHALL, 3, Lomdahd Stbeht. 
 
 #|)ipijing gigtnt— 
 Mb. W. a. WINKLEY, 23, Bibchin Lanb, Cobnhill.