[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.

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