Farrer to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge your letter
of the 4th Instant, stating that the Governor of British Columbia,
has been requested to cause repayment to be made of the sum of
£212.16.10, incurred by the Board of Trade for the supply of Stores
for the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island.

The Board of Trade direct me to observe that these stores
were supplied on the requisitions to the Crown Agents of the
Colonies accompanying your letters of the 15th July 1865 and
12th June last, and that the expenses incurred have been advanced
out of the vote for Lighthouses abroad.

It is very desirable that the amount advanced, should be repaid
to the vote before the end of the financial year, and I am
therefore to suggest that the Crown Agents for the Colonies may
be instructed to pay the sum advanced (£212.16.10) as has hitherto
been done in former cases, for expenses incurred for
the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island.