Tilley to Herbert (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have laid before the Postmaster General your letter of the
11th Ultimo, enclosing a Statement of the amount paid by the
Government of British Columbia for the conveyance of Mails
between that Colony and San Francisco from the 1st of January
to the 31st of December 1870; and I am directed by Mr Monsell
to state that, in accordance with the regulation laid down by
the Treasury in August 1867, he has caused an Account to be
prepared, showing the total estimated cost of conveyance of the
Mails between this Country and British Columbia, in both
directions, during the year 1870, and the proportion of the cost
chargeable to the Imperial Post Office and to the Colony
respectively.

This Account, a copy of which is sent herewith, shows a balance
of £813.5s.2d due to the Colony and a Warrant for this amount
has been issued in favour of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.

Mr Monsell requests that the Earl of Kimberley will be good
enough to forward the enclosed Account to the Governor of
British Columbia, informing him that the balance has been paid.