Hunt to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 29th
October last inclosing a despatch from the Governor of British
Columbia respecting the disposal of Crown Revenues in Vancouver Island.

My Lords request that you will inform the Duke of Buckingham
& Chandos that they are unable to gather from this further
correspondence the reasons why Governor Kennedy in the year 1866
caused all Fines, Fees, and Forfeitures to be carried to the
credit of Crown Revenue; but, as Governor Seymour states that
the arrangement works satisfactorily, My Lords in the absence of
full information on the subject, see no reason for altering it.