Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 6th Instant,
enclosing Transcripts of two Laws enacted by the Government
of British Columbia, in the Months of June and August last vizt,
No 3 "to alter, in some respects, the rates of Duties of
Customs now leviable upon goods and other Articles and things
imported into British Columbia, and to make further provision
for the levying thereof," and No 6, "To amend the Laws
relating to the Licenses for Selling fermented Liquors, and
for the occupation of Crown Lands by Traders, and for other
purposes;" I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you, for the information of
the Duke of Newcastle, that They see no objection to these Enactments.