No. 66

I transmit to you for your information and guidance and in reply to
your Despatch No. 56 of the 6th May a copy of a letter from the Treasury
from which you will be [?] perceive that the accounts of expenditure in
connection with the Detachment of Royal Marines at San Juan Island are
from the future to be made up from the 31st March in one year to the
same date in the next.

In order to give effect to this arrangement I have to instruct you
to forward to this Department as soon as possible the account for the
Quarter ending 31st March last.