No. 13

Despatches which have been lately received from you, embracing
several subjects in the same communication, oblige me to remind you of
Rule 157 in the Book of Colonial Regulations to which you have been
already specially requested by the Duke of Newcastle to conform in your
correspondence with the Secretary of State. [Marginal note: 17th
Octr 1853.] Inattention to this rule being productive of
considerable inconvenience in the transaction of business in this
Office, I have to request that you will in future observe it.