No. 59

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 32
of the 5th of September, and to inform you that the British Columbia
Estimates for the present year which you have enclosed have met with the
approval of Her Majesty's Government.

The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have however requested me to
observe to you that the Abstract B Estimate of Expenditure does not shew
the amount actually expended in the year 1862, and that the Abstract A
Estimate of Revenue shews the Approximate Revenue 1863 instead of the
actual Revenue 1862, and their Lordships request that in future the
established form of preparing the Estimates of each year may be complied
with.

With regard to the Ordinance No. 30 of 1864, to which your Despatch
relates, I beg to refer you to my Despatch No. 58 of this days date.