No. 19

I beg to refer Your Lordship to Mr Secretary Cardwell's
despatch No. 32 of 7th June 1866, admitting that the sum
of £9,051.18.1 is due by the Imperial Government to this
Colony, and stating the measures which the Lords of the Treasury
intended to take for its repayment.

2. I beg likewise to refer your Lordship to the enclosed
Memorandum of the Auditor General's from which it would appear
that the amount has not yet been paid.

3. As the Colony is borrowing money at the rate of 12
per cent: it is highly desirable that we should possess any
funds justly due to us.