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 Superieur 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 Superieur 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. * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * NOTICE.