No. 171

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch
No 34 of the 19th March transmitting a copy of the usual
regulations in granting remissions on the purchase of land to
retired officers of the Army and Navy in the British Colonies where
such advantages are granted and authorizing me to promulgate them
with such modifications of the provisions, as the circumstances of
British Columbia may require, and I have to observe in reply that
your instructions on this subject will meet with my early attention.