No. 27

Some doubt has arisen respecting the exact meaning of your despatch
No. 18 of the 6th of March last. It is not quite clear whether you mean
that payments such as fines, fees and forfeitures were from the 1st of
January 1866 to be for the first time carried to the account of Crown
Revenues, or whether such payments are from that date to be applied to
defraying the expenditure on Lighthouses. If the former be the case, I
would request to be informed whether fines, fees and forfeitures were
not previously carried to the credit of Crown Revenues, and if not, for
what reason.