No. 19

I have the honor to inform you that Governor Kennedy has called my
 attention to the claims advanced by the Government of Van Couver Island
 against that of British Columbia on account of the maintenance of
 Lighthouses and the conveyance of Mails.

I observe that these subjects were severally brought under your
notice whilst you were in this Country on the 31st October, and the 12th
December 1865, but no official reply from you is on record in this
office. As however the Union of the two Colonies necessarily entails
measures for the adjustment of their respective liabilities, which will
now devolve upon the arrangements which it will be best to make for the
settlement of these claims.