No. 9

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 157 of
the 30th November enclosing the Report of a Commission appointed by
you to examine into the sales of Real Estate in Vancouvers Island in
default of payment of taxes.

You will no doubt report to me how these irregularities escaped
detection, who are the public officers chargeable with them, whether
they are still in the public service and in what way they were
remunerated.