Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 16th Ultimo
announcing the appointment of Mr C.B. Franks to be
Treasurer of British Columbia, I am desired by the Lords
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit herewith
a Copy of a letter that has been addressed by Their Lordships
to the European Assurance Society on the subject of the
Accounts of that Colony, and I am to request that you will
move Mr Secretary Cardwell to communicate the same to
 the Governor in order that there may be no misunderstanding
on the part of the Officer who has recently been appointed
Colonial Secretary as to his duties as Auditor of the
Treasurer's Accounts in conformity with the instructions
of 1848, copies of which were forwarded in the letters of
this Board of 29th December 1858 and 24th November
of the same year;

My Lords take this occasion of observing that the
Regulations of 1839 for the custody of Public Moneys under
which a Maximum Balance to be retained in the hands of the
Colonial Treasurer should be paid by the Governor, has not
yet been carried out in British Columbia;

They are of opinion that the Governor's attention should be
called to the Several Regulations contained in Chapter 9 of the
Book of Colonial Regulations relating generally to the
custody of Public Monies, and that he should be instructed
forthwith to give effect to those Regulations—especially
as regards the Survey's of the Funds in the Chest at the
regular Quarterly periods, as well as at uncertain
periods and without previous notice.

I enclose herewith separate Copies of the Regulations
of 1839, and of the Forms.