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• 7. 1842 (Creation)

Royal Philatelic Society London

199 be made out in strict con conferenti Bills may "1 Eu reply to this statement "with the lean tract. we after beg respectfully to represent that immuction es our beautract with the Nouble Couns. of Stamps & Taxes was signed, we. were communication disieted to put ourselves in comm with elt. Allen and to receive all the Paper. warrants from, 4 deliver all the Portage label from, & deliver when ready, to her. That until you 7. 1842 he ко акнандесь completed his warrants as to have them ou or be мо before each. quarter day: anding : that Warrauts елень on this occasion the outstand ou not all delivered until the 17th you y. (although we were quite prepared to have delivered the Labels they being all pruited) it not being to this convenient to eht. Allen to receive theus; that prepared our Account our Account as usual up quarter day, when he stated that it must. шв wait until all the outstandin warrants were delivered and includes thems; when all had been delivered we made out our ajc charging all which had been delivered after the filh 3th You J. as delivered on that day, to this objected and our Accounts have them & ever suice, named the days were actually delivered & which in m he instances were several ми thy on which the any ways beyond the quarter day; these beevents have always been openly made out by us, examens passed and paid, and lue do not see that these has been always close ou аму excox is then. It wat our wish, and in el? Allen's power, the quarter day, & if by order of a the Boards own. 200 officia we acted upon the spirit, rather than the letter, of the Ceautract, being until the last few days as we solemnly declare шель we were, totally ignorant whether we benefitted or injured by his arrangements, we cannot see it to be reasonable to open three bccounts which have been already years settled to the su bjeet Our attention having been now called we see that by the strict letter of the Contract we have lost t3d. 19. 6 in Interes our Accounts but we never should have such a subject. on thought of even me mentioning We respectfully subunit to the Nouble Roard therefore. That as we acted under the directions the officer they placed over us, we acted - of under their own, and that as we should never have asked for any alterations of becounts had the letre Is by Warrants instead of Quarter day been itos or against us, and even had we asked it, we believe the Houble Board would not have thought it fair masonable to grant it, so we think that on of all the facts of the ease, a review the Nouble Board will consider that there is no sufficient reasure for acop for acopening those Recounts which have been already settled. We may justly further state that in several instances all, tiiv every само the delivered greater proportion of labels which have appeared in our accounts as after the Quarter de raduiess and coulds being were ordered, were in readniess and would have been de levered ow op before the quarter военов мо back to suit cht. Ale my but were kept con veu ines. He

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Summary: The letter discusses issues regarding the delivery and accounting of paper warrants and portage labels under a contract with the Noble Counsel of Stamps & Taxes. It highlights delays in delivery, disagreements over account settlements, and a request to the Noble Board to reconsider reopening settled accounts.

Date: 7. 1842

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