No. 88

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch No. 21 of the 24th of June, and to sanction the British
Columbia Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1869.

I have also to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious confirmation
and Allowance of the British Columbia Appropriation Ordinance No. 3 of
1869, a copy of which was forwarded to me with Mr. Seymour's Despatch No.
45 of the 19th of March, and which is entitled

An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of Four hundred and nineteen
thousand three hundred and thirty five Dollars and Fifty Cents out of
the general Revenue of the Colony, for the Contingent Service of the
year 1869.

My Despatch No. 86 of the 18th Instant will have acquainted you
with the form in which the British Columbia Estimates are for the future
to be sent home.