No. 91

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
107 of the 11th August, enclosing applications addressed to you by
Officers of your Government praying for compensation for the losses they
have sustained by permanently removing from New Westminster to Victoria.

I sincerely lament the losses to which these gentlemen have been
subjected by the consolidation of the two Colonies, and would gladly
learn that the Colonial Legislature had voted them in Land or Money some
compensation for those losses.

It is for the Government and Legislature of British Columbia to
consider how and to what extent this could be done, as it is not in my
power to recommend that any indemnity should be given them from Imperial
Funds.