No. 56

I have to acquaint you that Her Majesty's Government have had under
their consideration the necessity of endeavouring to procure a regular
Postal Service between San Francisco and British Columbia, and that in
connection with this subject they have had before them the tender made
by Mr Edward Stamp to enter into a contract for this service. The
Lords Commissoners of the Treasury, however, are of opinion that there
are no sufficient reasons in the present instance for departing from the
principal of competition and they are therefore about to issue
advertisement for tenders for this service to be performed fortnightly
between San Francisco, Victoria and Fort Langley.