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from England, and beg leave to request that the said License may be deliv- 

 ered to Mr. Bradshaw, the Manager of this Bank at Quebec, who has been 

 instructed to pay the fees due thereon. 



I have the honour to be, sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed), Thos. G. Ridout, 



Cashier. 

 The Honourable Pierre J. O. Chauveau, Secretary of the Province, Quebec. 



No. 52. 



Bank of Upper Canada, 

 Sir, Toronto, 6 November, 1856. 



The Letter of License issued by Government on the 12th October, 1853, 

 permitting this Bank to import from England Copper Tokens to the amount 

 of Five thousand, pounds sterling haviing been acted upon to that extent, I 

 am diirected again, to appily on behalf of this Bank for another License from 

 His Excellency the Governor-General to import from England a further 

 supply of Copper Coins or Tokens of the same stamp and fineness of the 

 former pence and halfpence, tout under date of the year 1857, to the extent 

 of Ten thousand pounds sterling. 



The Bank is induced to make thLs application in consequence of the great 

 scarcity of small copper change which has for some time past existed through- 

 out the Province, and which, it is hoped, may be in some degree alleviated 

 by an early importation in January or February next. 



The copper from which the Bank Tokens are made has hitherto been 

 assayed at the Royal Mint and has proved to be the same purity as the 

 British penny pieces and Veths its value, and the same course will be pur- 

 sued under the License now applied for. 



I have the honour to be, sir. 



Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed), Thos. G. Ridout, 



Cashier. 

 The Honourable The Secretary of the Province. Toronto. 



No. 53. 



Copy of a Reiport of a Committee of the Honourable the Executive Council, 

 ■dated 8 November, 1856, approved by His Excellency the Governor- 

 General in Council on the same day. 



On the aipplication of Thomas G. Ridout, Esquire, Cashier Bank of Upper 

 Canada, dated 6th inst., stating that the Letter of License issued by Govern- 

 ment on the 12th October, 1853, permitting that Bank to import from Eng- 

 land Copper Tokens to the amount of Five thousand pounds sterling, having 

 been acted upon to that extent, he is directed again to apply on behalf of 

 the Bank for another License to import from England a further supply of 

 Copper Coins or Tokens of the same stamp and fineness of the former pence 

 and halfpence, but under date of the year 1857, to the extent of Ten thousand 

 pounds sterling. 



The Committee are respectfully of opinion that the permission authorized 

 by the Act 4 and 5 Vict, ch. 17, be given to the Bank of Upper Canada to 



