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XXYl.—l. The General Orders, of which this is No. XXVI., 
being standing orders and regulations for the guidance of the officers 
and crews of the vessels of theNiger Expedition, to be communicated 
to them by their respective commanders, or commanding officers, 
are to be kept separate from general memoranda and other orders, 
which, though they may be for the direction and information of 
the vessels generally, are only of a temporary nature. If one book 
only is kept, it must contain General Orders at one end, and 
General Memoranda, &c., at the other; a new book being com- 
menced when the two sets of orders meet. 
2. No. 900 in the General Signal Book, is to be marked 
in pencil as follows Second Master, Clerk, or Clerk's 
Assistant, with the Order Book, to copy orders and, when 
obeyed, the officer is to sign his name and rank, as having copied 
the order correctly. 
3. My clerk will occasionally be ordered to see that the general 
orders have been correctly copied ; and, -when satisfied of their 
correctness, to sign his name at the end of the last order, 
XXVII, — 1. It is to be understood, that all presents received 
from the African Chiefs, Headmen, or others of the country, for 
which some equivalent has or will be given in Government goods 
or money, shall be considered for the use of her Majesty. 
Presents consisting of oxen, sheep, goats, poultry, vegetables, 
fruit, or other articles of provision received, are to be taken 
on charge, and accounted for by the Pursers and Clerk-in-Charge 
of the respective ships of the Expedition. 
XXVIll. — Cowries having been supplied to the steam-vessels, 
chiefly for the purchasing of provisions and stores and other con- 
tingencies, on account of the Niger Expedition, it is my direction 
that they be reserved expressly for that purpose, and on no 
account be applied for the payment of savings of provisions or 
monthly allowance, without my permission in writing. 
XXIX, — Mr. C. Wakeham, purser of the ' Wilberforce,’ 
having, at my request, ascertained the average weight and mea- 
sure of a certain number of cowries, and the sterling value thereof 
in regard to their cost to Government, and it appearing by his 
report, after a careful and tedious inquiry, that about four hundred 
cowries weigh about one pound avoirdupois, and that an imperial 
