No. 27

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No 1
of the 3rd of August last apprizing me that Her Majesty's Government
having again taken into their consideration the circumstances under
which I chartered the ship "Otter," as a guard ship for the protection
of this settlement, will be prepared to defray the amount thus expended,
upon receiving a properly certified account of the same.

I have in consequence the honor of transmitting herewith the
required account shewing the sum expended for that object amounting to
£400 Sterling.

I beg also to inform you that I had previously to the receipt of
your Despatch forwarded copies of the same account to the Hudson's Bay
Company from whom the ship "Otter" was chartered.