No. 65

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of
the 17th April, Separate, addressed to my Predecessor respecting the
amount of salary and allowances which for the future should in your
opinion be assigned to the governor of British Columbia. I concur
entirely in the opinion which you express of the inexpediency or
rather impossibility in the present financial condition of British
Columbia of moving for any increase to your salary beyond the £4,000 a
year, at which it is now fixed.

In speaking of an allowance for travelling not exceeding One
thousand pounds per annum, Lord Carnarvon of course contemplated that
the allowance on that account should not exceed a fair equivalent for
the expenses actually incurred by the governor in travelling.