Chapter XXII: Appendix: Consultat Général de France en Angleterre

Londres, le 1^er September, 1863.

Le Consul Général de France a Londres a l'honneur de transmettre á Monsieur ----, avec prière de vouloir bien lui en accuser réception, une lettre et une médaille qui lui sont destinées.

Monsieur ----, _Negociant_.

_Ministere de l'Agriculture du Commerce, et des Travaux Public--Secrétarian Général, Mèdaille._

Paris, le 22 Juin, 1863.

Monsieur à la suite du traité de commerce conclu le 23 Janvier, 1860, entre la France et la Grande Bretagne, le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté l'Empereur a du procéder à une enquète dont les résultats devaient le mettre à mème de determiner les Tarifs des droit d'importation en France des produits fabriqués en Angleterre. Pour Consacrer le Souvenir de cette enquête, l'une des plus importantes de ce genre qui aient été faites en France, le Gouvernement à fait frapper une médaille commemorative et il a décidé qu'un exemplaire en bronze de cette médaille serait mis à la disposition des Industriels qui ont déposé dans l'enquéte. J'ai l'honneur, Monsieur, de vous adresser à ce titre l'exemplaire qui vous est destiné. Recevez, Monsieur, l'assurance de ma consideration tres distinguée.

Le Ministre de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Travaux Public,

G. ROUHER.

Monsieur ----, _Negociant_.

[It is requested that any further communication on the subject be addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Trade, Whitehall, London, S.W.]

_Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade_,

Whitehall, 9th May, 1861.

SIR,

I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you the accompanying Volume, which contains the evidence taken by the Counseil Supêrieur du Commerce on the Industries of England and France, during their recent enquiry at Paris, in connection with the Commercial Treaty between the two countries. In requesting your acceptance of this Work, of which a limited number of Copies has been placed at the disposal of Her Majesty's Government by the Government of France, I am to convey to you the best thanks of this Board for the valuable assistance which you rendered upon that occasion, both to the Counseil Supêrieur and to the British Commissions.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

J. EMMERSON TENNENT.

_Order of License to a Convict, made under the Statutes 16 & 17 Vic., c. 99, s. 9; and 27 & 28 Vic., c. 47, s. 4._

Whitehall, ---- day of ---- 18--

Her Majesty is graciously pleased to grant to ---- who was convicted of ---- on the ---- day of ---- 18--, and was then and there sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for the term of ----, and is now confined in the ---- Her Royal License to be at large from the day of his liberation under this order, during the remaining portion of his said term of penal servitude, unless the said ---- shall, before the expiration of the said term, be convicted of some indictable offence within the United Kingdom, in which case such License will be immediately forfeited by law, or unless it shall please Her Majesty sooner to revoke or alter such License.

This License is given subject to the conditions endorsed upon the same, upon the breach of any of which it shall be liable to be revoked, whether such breach is followed by a conviction or not. And Her Majesty hereby orders that the said ---- be set at liberty within Thirty days from the date of this order.

Given under my hand and seal.

Signed, S. H. WALPOLE.

_True Copy_ } E. Y. W. HENDERSON, _License to be at large._} Chairman of the Directors of Convict Prisons.

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CONDITIONS.

1.--The holder shall preserve his License, and produce it when called upon to do so by a Magistrate or Police Officer.

2.--He shall abstain from any violation of the law.

3.--He shall not habitually associate with notoriously bad characters, such as reputed thieves and prostitutes.

4.--He shall not lead an idle or dissolute life, without visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood.

If his License is forfeited or revoked in consequence of a Conviction for any Offence, he will be liable to undergo a term of Penal Servitude equal to the portion of his term of ---- years which remained unexpired when his License was granted, _viz._:--the term of two years and eleven months.

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NOTICE.

He shall report himself to the Police on discharge, and subsequently once in each month; and if he changes his residence from one Police District to another, he shall report himself to the Police of the locality he leaves, and to the Police of that to which he goes, within three days of his arrival: if he fails to do so, his License will be forfeited.

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In the foregoing "Ticket-of-leave" the word Licence is spelt with an _s._ In the Police Documents it is spelt with a _c._--So much for the education of Government Officials.

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SAVOY STEAM PRESS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.