No. 1

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Sir William Molesworth's Despatches, of the dates mentioned in the margin, with their enclosures.

I will take the liberty of remarking for the information of Her
Majesty's Government; that the enclosures above referred to consisting
of 4 copies of Blank Returns, of which the Annual Blue Book is composed, for the year 1855, made up a parcel of considerable weight, and the
Postal charge at the United States Post Office in Puget's Sound came to
the sum of 68 88/100 dollars equal to 14.7.0 Sterling.

I would in consequence of that prodigious rate of charge, take the
liberty of suggesting, that the Despatches of Her Majesty's Government,
and all printed Enclosures, not exceeding the weight of 16 ounces,
should, in all cases as at present, be forwarded to this Colony, by the
Panama Mail Route; and that Books and Printed Forms, when exceeding the
weight of 16 ounces, except on occasions of great urgency, should be
sent to the Hudson's Bay House, to be forwarded by the Hudson's Bay
Company's Ships to this place; or the parcels might equally well be
forwarded by any of Her Majesty's Ships proceeding to the Pacific.