No. 33

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 35
of the 14th of June, on the subject of the defalcations of Mr. G. T.
Gordon, late Treasurer of Vancouver Island.

As it appears that in the opinion of the Attorney General the sum
of these defalcations cannot be recovered from Mr. Gordon's Surities,
there seems to be no other course than to submit to the loss as resolved
by your Council. I have therefore to convey to you my approval of the
course you have taken in directing the amount to be written off the
pulic accounts as irrecoverable.