No. 127

I have the honor to forward copy of a letter addressed to me by
the President of the Municipal Council of New Westminster
enclosing a petition to Her Majesty, and copy of one which will
be presented to the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

2. Both petitions, as Your Grace will have surmised, refer to
the claims, already urged, to compensation on account of the
Capital having been removed from New Westminster to Victoria.
Your Grace is well aware that the people of the former have, at
least, their fair share of my solicitude.

3. Everything stated in the petitions is incontestable, with
the exception perhaps of the subject of accounts between the lot
holders and the local Government. The question has been often
argued and very complicated accounts brought forward. This
however seems clear, that the whole of the money raised by the
sale of town lots has not been Expended in New Westminster. But
to me this appears to be a matter for local adjustment rather
than for a reference to Her Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament.