Sargeaunt to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

In answer to your letter of the 26th Ultimo, I have
to state for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, that
British Columbia has been indebted to the Agents General since the
12th July
1862, at which date the overpayment amounted to the sum of £172.2.6.

No remittance has been received since January 1862, but
the Colony has been credited since that date with the sum of
£77.11.8, the proceeds of the sale of certain Gold Dollars
sent to this Country for the International Exhibition of last year, as
well as with the small sum of £4.12, received from the War Department.

At the present date the Agents General have advanced for
British Columbia the sum of £486.15/- and have incurred by
orders of the Secretary of State liabilities amounting to £289.10.5.

To place the Agents General in a proper position, as regards
funds the Governor should remit

1st An amount to repay the Agents General £486.15

2nd To defray liabilities already incurred £289.10.5

]3rd Funds to meet current orders (say) £200.14.7

Total £977. 0.0

The local Government has been furnished regularly on the
termination of each Quarter with a copy of their Account, but
no special application for remittances has been made.

As regards Vancouvers Island it will be doubtless sufficient
to state that the Agents General have a large balance in hand
in favor of that Colony amounting to the sum of £30,576, part
of which (£26,000) has been deposited at interest at the London
Joint Stock Bank in accordance with the arrangement sanctioned
by His Grace in your letter of the 27th Ultimo.