Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to transmit to you, herewith, for the information of
the Secretary of State with reference to your letter of the
11th instt the inclosed copy of a Report from the Assistant
Solicitor to this Board relative to the steps which are being
taken in connection with the defalcations of the late Mr
Cochrane, formerly Magistrate's Clerk and Recorder of Mining
Claims at Cariboo in British Guiana [British Columbia].