Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to Mr Elliot's letter of the 11th
Instant,

enclosing an application from Captain Gosset, the
Treasurer of British Columbia, for Stationery etc, I am
directed by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury
to transmit herewith Copy of a Report from the Commissioners
of Audit, with Copy of the printed Instruction of
1848,

and I am to request that you will move Sir E.B. Lytton to inform
My Lords whether it is intended that the general system of
Accounts prevailing in other Colonies, should be applied to
British Columbia, in which case My Lords will direct the
preparation of the Necessary Estimates, Warrants and other
forms required by those Instructions.

In the mean time, My Lords are of opinion that the Copy of the
printed Instructions of 1848 should be forwarded to the Treasurer of the
Colony, for his guidance, in establishing a good system of Account.

Sir E.B. Lytton will observe that the Forms of Cash
Book, Waste Book, Journal, and other Books are now being printed.

I am also to transmit herewith Copy of a Report from the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue, on Capt. Gosset's proposal that a supply
of Stamps for deeds &c should be sent out to British Columbia.