No. 8, Financial

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Graces Despatch
No 23 of the 1st December, referring me to your Graces Despatch of
the 20th October last, for instructions on the subject of meeting
the cost of the Civil Establishment of Vancouvers Island, and
informing me that your Grace will shortly give full and definite
instructions upon the important constitutional and financial
questions referred to in my Despatch No 46 of the 12th September last,

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and expressing your satisfaction with, and approval of, the other
proceedings reported in my said Despatch, and I feel much gratified
at this kind expression of Your Graces opinion.