Confidential

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential
Despatch of the 29th of July, in reply to mine of the 4th of
May last, upon the subject of the insufficiency of the Salary of my
Office.

2. I have to return my most sincere thanks to your Grace for
the very kind manner in which you have expressed yourself upon this
matter, and I beg to acquaint you that I am perfectly satisfied
with the Salary now allotted to me by Her Majesty's Government,
but I trust that the condition which is attached to that portion of
the Salary payable from the Revenues of British Columbia may be
removed, for it must be evident to your Grace that if the yearly
Revenue of the Colony falls short of Fifty Thousand Pounds per
annum, that circumstances can make no difference in my expenditure
and when my whole annual Income is not more than is necessary for
my support, I cannot regulate my expenses upon the
mere probability of receiving so large a portion of that Income as
Twelve Hundred Pounds (£1,200).

3. I trust your Grace is assured that no exertion has been
wanting, or shall be wanting on my part to produce from British
Columbia the largest possible Revenue, and I doubt not that the
Revenue for the current year will attain the prescribed limit,
but your Grace cannot fail to understand how serious and embarrassing
to me is the condition imposed, and upon this representation and
under the consideration that the Mother Country has incurred no
expense for the Colony on Civil account, except for a portion of
my salary, I trust your Grace will see fit to remove this condition.

4. I have recently received an offer from the Governor and
Committee of the Hudson Bay Company to purchase my retiring interest
in the Company at the price I named, so should Her Majesty's
Government not desire to avail themselves of the offer I made,
all difficulty upon that head is removed.