No. 63

I have to acquaint you that a claim has been received from the
Admiralty for repayment of the cost of the entertainment of the Bishop
of British Columbia and of his Chaplain in H.M's Gunboat "Forward" in
September last, amounting to £34-6/-.

This charge is one which should be defrayed from the Colonial
Revenues and in the absence of any funds in this Country belonging to
British Columbia, I have requested the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury to repay the Admiralty out of the Parliamentary Grant

for the
Colony. A diminution to the extent of £34-6 is thus occasioned in the
amount of the grant available for the general service of British
Columbia.