No. 28

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatches
noted in the Margin,

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respecting claims advanced by the Government of Vancouver Island
against that of British Columbia on account of the maintenance of
Lighthouses and the Conveyance of Mails.

2. I was not satisfied that the claims were well founded and
therefore resisted them. Now however that the Colonies have been united
with a Common Treasury the Matter necessarily settles itself.