No. 18, Financial

Referring to your Separate Despatch dated 12th October 1865 and
other correspondence on the subject of Crown Lands and Revenues, and
in view of the liabilities to the Imperial Government for the outlay
incurred in the erection of Lighthouses which it seems doubtful
whether the local Legislature will make good, I have deemed it my
duty to direct that all Crown Revenues such as fines, fees,
forfeitures should be carried to that account from the 1st January
 1866.