No. 3

I have the honor to transmit to you for your information a copy of
a letter from one of the Agents General for Crown Colonies reporting
that British Columbia six per cent Debentures to the extent of £50,000
were delivered to the Bank of British Columbia on the 12th of December
last.

In reference to this subject I have to request that you will
furnish me with a statement of the Bills received from the Bank—their
amounts and dates.

A statement of the sums realized by the sale of these Bills, and
the parties to whom they were respectively sold, of the dates of the
different sales, and the market rate of exchange upon London at the
respective dates—also a statement of the amounts which will be payable
by way of Interest on the Bills up to the 12th of December upon which
day the Debentures were issued. And lastly a statement of the amount of
interest which the Bank will have to pay to the Government on debentures
delivered to them in London prior to the delivery of corresponding bills
by their Agent to the Government in British Columbia.