No. 88

I have learnt with much regret, from your Despatch No.
7, of 24th February, that the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury have determined that the Colony shall pay for the
huts and other wooden buildings erected for the accommodation
of the detachment of the Royal Engineers near New Westminster,
which are utterly without value to us.

2. This decision having been concurred in by you, I must
take it as final, and the only indulgence I now solicit is that
the Colonial Agents may be allowed to defer the payment to the
Imperial Treasury of the ten thousand seven hundred and four
pounds 16/7 (£10,704.16.7), until the whole of the Loan authorized to
be raised by the Colony has been taken up.