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was permitted to make would probably be required to meet the wants in 

 Canada West, I am enabled to inform you that a considera,ble part of this 

 last importation will be left for issue at Quebec and Montreal on its arrival 

 by the first ships this spring via the St. Lawrence. The apprehension ex- 

 pressed in your letter is then not likely to be realized. Should it be otherwise, 

 the Governor-General will not fail to take into consideration, any representa- 

 tions he may receive on the subject. 



I h^ave, etc. 

 Ent. A. R. R. W. H. J. 



No. 31. 



Quebec Bank, 



17 November, 1851. 



The Hon. A. N. Morin. 



Sir 



'with reference to my letters addressed to the Provincial Secretary, bearing 



date 17 January and 21 March last, and to the ansiwers received from the 

 Hon. J. Leslie of the 12 and 28 March last, I am instructed by the President 

 and Directors of this Bank, to request that you will be pleased to bring 

 the subject of that correspondence to the notice of His Excellency the Gov- 

 ernor-General, and to move Hie Lordship to grant permission for this Bank 

 to import from England in the course of next year, Two thousand pounds of 

 Copper Coins, pence and halfpence for circulation, under the provisions of 

 Act 4 and 5 Vict., Cap. 17. 



I have the honour to be, sir, 



Your Most Obedt. Servt., 



(Signed), Noah Freer, 



Cashier. 

 (Pencil Notation.) 



Quebec Bank— for authority to import Copper Coins To Canada. 



No. 32. 



Extract from a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Executive 

 Council on Matters of State, dated 19 Novemiber, 1851, approved by His 

 Excellency the Governor -njreneral-in-Council on the same day. 



On the application of The President and Directors of the Quebec Bank, 

 dated 17 November, 1851, that permission may be granted to that Institution 

 to import from England in the course of next year. Two Thousand Pounds 

 in copper coins, pence, and halfpence, for circulation, under the provisions 

 of the Act 4 and 5 Vict., oh. 17. 



The Comimittee are respectfully of opinion that the permission authorized 

 by the Act 4 and 5- Vict., ch. 17, ibe given to the Quebec Bank to import during 

 the space of one year ooixper coin in pence and halfpence, to the amount 

 not exceeding £2,000 sterling, on the condition (published by the above recited 

 Act, and that the notice required by Law be given accordingly in the OfHcial 

 Gazette, and that M. Secretary Morin do give the necessary instructions in 

 the matter. 



Certified, 



(Signed), W. H. Lee. 



To the Honorable The Provincial Secretary, etc., etc., etc. 



