Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 6th Instant
enclosing a British Columbia Ordinance, No 18 of 1864,
granting a Supplemental Supply of £60,076.8.8, out of
the General Revenue of the Colony, for the service of the
year 1864, I am desired by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to request that you will point out
to Mr Secretary Cardwell that the despatch from the
Governor forwarding this Ordinance does not contain any
information as to the state of the Revenue from which
this large Supplementary Expenditure has to be met;

Their Lordships would wish to know whether any
reports upon that subject have been received from
Governor Seymour, the reports of Survey of the Colonial
Chest, and the mere Quarterly Abstracts, being all
the information in the possession of this Board;

My Lords are of opinion that before this Law is sanctioned,
a full statement as to the Revenue of 1864 should be
required to be furnished.

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