Holograph fragment of report that the informant Henry Smithson has been paid all he is owed

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That it doth not app upon examining Mr Smithson's Accts it doth not appear to us that any money is due to him for prosecuting by Order of the Warden of the Mint.

That Mr Newton is of opinion that for encouraging those that prosecute under the Warden it would have been better that tall the Coynage Duty including the 400l had been imprested to ye Mr for the time being, so that he might advance to ye Warden any reasonable summs of ready money for that service upon receipts for the same & be discharged in his Accts b yearly Accts by those Receipts

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<text in Unknown Hand begins>To the Right Worshipfull Sr Isaac Newton at his house in Iermyn street.

Westminster.