Stansfeld to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Granville,
that My Lords have had before them the Ordinance No 21
of 1869 "To Establish Public Schools throughout the Colony of
British Columbia," transmitted in your letter of 18th ult.

I am to state that as provision has been made in the Estimates
for the current year for educational purposes, out of which My
Lords presume that the Grants to be made under the authority of
the Governor, as provided in the Ordinance, will be issued, they
see no reason to object to the Ordinance.