Jamaique

Executive Committee of Jamaica. Manuscript Letter Signed 'Wm: R:' from Executive Committee Office to Messrs Thomson Hankey & Co. London bankers regarding the payment of substantial sums towards the Bank of England Jamaica Guaranteed Loan.

14752 — 'Jamaica No 81'. Executive Committee Office. 26 January 1856. 3pp. foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition on lightly aged and worn paper. The letter begins: 'Gentlemen I am directed to inform you that a Bill of Exchange drawn by His Excellency the Governor and the Members of the Executive Committee on the Lords of the Treasury for the sum of £10.822 . 9 . 6 at thirty days' sight will be forwarded to you by the Receiver General by the present Mail together with Bills of the Colonial Bank making with the Bills already forwarded the further sum of £9.500 - and to provide altogether the sum of £20.000 which I am to instruct you to receive and pay to the Bank of England in liquidation of that amount payable there on the 1st April next for Interest and Sinking Fund on the Jamaica Guaranteed Loan.' The letter continues for more than a page in the same vein. From the Hankey & Co. banking archive. Underneath summary of contents "Ansd do 16 Feb. /56 the date of receiving W.W. William Wilson of Hankeys" has initialled 'Jamaica No 81'. Executive Committee Office. 26 January 1856. unknown