Sargent to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

There is an arrear of assessed Taxes amounting to
£3.12s, due from G.H. Cary, Esqre Attorney General in
British Columbia, in respect of an assessment made upon him
for the year 1858-59 as follows:

£ s d

2nd half years Inhabited House duty

at No 12 Elm Tree Road, Marylebone £ 15.9

Whole years house duty at No 7

New Square, Lincoln's Inn £ 2.16.3

£ 3.12.0

The Board have addressed two letters to Mr Cary
for payment of the arrears in question, to which no reply
has been received.

As the outstanding of these arrears occassions much
inconvenience to this office by keeping open the accounts of
the District in which they are due, the Board have directed
me to bring the circumstance under the notice of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, with a view to such steps being
taken as may be thought most desirable to obtain a settlement
of the Crown's claim.