That is to say, an addition of five fold.
ROWLAND HILL.
Bayswater, July 1, 1839.
APPENDIX I.
EXTRACT FROM FIRST REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND REVENUE, ON THE INLAND REVENUE.
Under the head “Discount at the Offices of Distributors in the Country.”
“It is only just to our stamping department, and more especially to Mr. Edwin Hill, under whose supervision it is placed, that we should mention the constant improvements which are every day being introduced in the machinery for impressing or manufacturing stamps, although it is impossible to enumerate or explain them in detail.