Mallet to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th
instant, transmitting an Ordinance passed by the Legislature of
British Columbia in the month of April last, entitled "An
Ordinance to create a further duty of Customs for the Public
Service," together with a copy of the Governor's despatch, and
the Local Attorney General's thereupon, and in reply I am to
request that you will state to Earl Granville that My Lords are
of opinion that the Ordinance in question may properly receive
Her Majesty's confirmation and allowance.