Lugard to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of 30th July relative
to a proclamation which had been issued by the Governor of
British Columbia, substituting for a remission in the purchase
money of Land grants of a fixed extent, in the case of Naval
and Military Officers, I am directed by the Secretary of State
for War to transmit to you for the information of the
Duke of Newcastle the enclosed copy of a letter from the India Office
and to request that you will move His Grace to inform Earl de
Grey whether he sees any objection to the terms & conditions
of the grants of Land in British Columbia being announced by
the Government of India, as applicable to the Officers of Her
Majesty's Indian Army.