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Ordered, — That the two thousand maunds of pit-coal be delivered to 

 the Military Store- keeper, and that he be directed to receive charge 

 of it. 



Ordered, — That Messrs. J. Sumner, &c. be advised accordingly. 



To Major JOHN GREEN, Commissary of Stores. 



Sir, — Agreeable to the directions of the Honorable the Governor 

 General and Council, I request you will please to receive into the store 

 two thousand maunds of pit-coal, which has been sometime since im- 

 ported into Calcutta by Messrs. Sumner, Heatly and Redfearne. When 

 you have received the same, you will please to inform me of it. I am, &c. 



Fort William, George Livius, 



19 th December, 1777. Military Store-keeper. 



Major Green on the receipt of this letter, addressed Mr. Hastings on 

 the quality of the coal not being fit for the purposes for which it was 

 required by Government, and on the 24th December, Mr. Hastings 

 brought the matter before the Council. 



The Governor General lays before the Board, the following letter 

 delivered to him by the Commissary of Stores, addressed to him by 

 the Military Store-keeper, and submits to the Board the propriety of 

 ordering, that the coals in question may be first examined and re- 

 ported fit for use by the Commissary of Stores before they be received, 

 in consequence of the resolution passed on the 18th August 1774, and 

 that if they should not appear to be fit for use, that the Military Store- 

 keeper be directed to return them to the proprietors. 



The letter referred to is Livius's. The Board agreed to Mr. Hastings' 

 proposal, and it was " Ordered, — That the Commissary of Stores be 

 directed to examine the coals, agreeably to the Governor General's 

 proposition." The report was soon sent in. 



To The Hon'ble WARREN HASTINGS, Esq. S?c. S?c. 



Honorable Sir and Sirs, — According to your order of the 24th 

 December 1777, transmitted to me by your Secretary, I now enclose 



