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[Board of Trade to Sharpe.]
Whitehall May 11th 1764
Sir.
We send you herewith a Copy of an Address from the
House of Commons to His Majesty of the 5th of the last
month, and desire you will, forthwith prepare and transmit to
us as soon as possible the account therein required, that the
same may be laid before that House the next meeting of
Parliament.
So We bid you heartily farewell, and are
Your very loving Friends
and humble Servants
Hillsborough
Soame Jenyns
Ed: Eliot
C. Bacon
Geo: Rice
Orwell
J. Dyson
Bamber Gascoyne
[Resolution.]
House of Commons
5 April 1764.
Resolved,
That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, that
he will be graciously pleased to give Directions to the Com-
missioners of Trade and Plantations, to prepare, in order to
be laid before this House, the next Session of Parliament, an
Account of the Tender and Amount of the Bills of Credit,
which have been created & issued in the Several British
Colonies and Plantations in America, as well those under
Proprietors and Charters, as under His Majesty's immediate
Commission and Government since January 1749; distin-
guishing the Amount of the same in each Colony and Planta-
tion, and the respective times when such Bills were issued,
with the Amount of the said Bills in money of Great Britain,
both at the time when such Bills were issued, and at the time of
preparing the said Account, and also the Times fixed for call-
ing in, sinking and discharging such Bills, and the funds
appropriated for that purpose.
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