Annotation:
        No 3
Admiralty Nov. 10.1810
Dispensing order given
for passing my accounts

Admiralty Office. 10^th November. 1810.

Sir,

      Having laid before my Lords
Commiƒsioners of the Admiralty your letter
of the 8^th instant, requesting that a
certificate may be granted to you of
the receipt in this office of such of
the Logbooks, charts, accounts, and
remarks, as you have transmitted hither
under the instructions which you received
on sailing in the "Investigator", to enable
you to paƒs your accounts; I am commanded
to acquaint you that the certificate which
you request will be prepared and
delivered to you; and that an order
is given to the Navy Board to dispense
with the production of those papers
that

Captⁿ Matt^w Flinders
      Town

that have not been received here.
      Having also communicated
to their Lordships your letter of the
8^th inst. wherein you request that
your papers which were lost in the
wreck of the "Porpoise", and others,
that were destroyed under particular
circumstances, may be dispensed with;
I am commanded by their Lordships
to acquaint you that an order is
given, accordingly.

      I am,
          Sir,

          Your very humble servant
          Jn Barrow