No. 56

Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch No 32, of the 25th March
last and its enclosures, I now have the honor to forward the San
Juan Island Military Accounts and Vouchers for the year ended
31st December, 1869. A further Statement for the first Quarter
of 1870 will be forwarded when the Audit of those accounts has
been completed.

2. I am informed by the Auditor that the San Juan Account has
been always heretofore sent as a yearly statement from 1st
January to 31st December; and has been furnished within the
period allowed by the Regulations. It is not clear from Mr
Lushington's Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury whether or
not the Admiralty desire that this arrangement should be changed
and the Annual Accounts made up from the 31st March to the
same date in the following year.