No. 5

Having referred to the Lords Commissoners of the Treasury your
despatch No 226 of the 25th of October last, I have to acquaint you
that their Lordships have informed me that in their opinion it would be
better to postpone fixing a rate of allowance for your travelling
expenses during the time that you might be absent from the Seat of
Government on official duty, until some experience shall have been
obtained of the cost of travelling in British Columbia; and that the
system of furnishing accounts of actual disbursements made by you should
be persevered in, until sufficient data exist for establishing a daily
rate.

The instance of Ceylon quoted as a parallel case can scarcely be so
considered when reference is had to the amount of Pomp and display
considered indispensable in the latter Country.