Letter received by Banks from the Honourable East India Company, 16 May 1801 (Series 64.05) - No. 0001

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My Dear Sir

I laid your letter before the Committee of Correspondence who were much pleased with it and expressed their happiness at the Investigators Business being finished to your satisfaction. The mistake as to payment of half at China can be easily remedied by paying it at home on her return - half before she sets out & half on her return.  It can be drawn for at her Return to the Cape Homeward if more agreeable