Sargeaunt to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I transmit to you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, a
letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary of Vancouver Island, and I
have the honor to request you to be so good as to furnish me with His
Grace's authority for taking such steps as may be necessary for
placing the whole amount of the Debentures referred to (£40,000) on
the market, and for complying with the other requests of the
Government of that Colony as expressed in the aforementioned letter.

The Report called for at the suggestion of the Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury by the last paragraph of your letter of the 18th
Ultimo, upon the mode in which the Government of Vancouver Island
should provide for the expenses of the Agency with respect to this
Loan will be comprised in the General Report on this Office
Establishment, which the Agents General are now preparing.