[1] This purchase was in itself an interesting piece of municipal history. "By an Order in Council," says Jacob in his Annals of British Norman Isles, p. 153, "the Meat Market Company were to be allowed by the States, certain duties on all the cattle killed, so long as they remained proprietors of the Market; but the States were allowed at any future time to take the same into their own possession on the payment of what the proprietors had advanced. The States did this on the 10th April, 1817, at an expense of £5,000." (See p. 16.)
[2] We have been unsuccessful in our efforts to obtain Part II. either in Guernsey or in London, and wonder whether it was ever published.
[3] Daniel de Lisle Brock was Bailiff from 24th May, 1821, to 12th January, 1843.
CHAPTER IV
THE UTILITY OF THE NOTES
There is abundant evidence throughout the records that the system was appreciated.
Jacob's Annals (1830), in a chapter on Currency, mentions the Notes incidentally. "All these, with the one pound Guernsey States' Notes, are in much request, being very commodious for the internal affairs of the island."
The Bailiff, Daniel de Lisle Brock, who seems undoubtedly to have been the inspiring genius of the scheme, says in his Billet d'Etat, 15th November, 1827—