No. 71

I have the honor to acquaint you that the Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury have authorized the payment of two Bills Nos. 12 and 13
drawn by the Treasurer of Vancouver Island for the sums of £600 and
£400 respectively.

Considerable difficulty being experienced in identifying the Bills
left from time to time at the Paymaster General's for payment with
those advised in your despatches to the Secretary of State, I have to
instruct you for the future to specify in your despatches to the
Secretary of State the number and dates of the Bills so to be drawn,
together with their separate amounts and the service for which they are
drawn in order that this difficulty may be avoided.

It will also be desirable that Bills drawn for the General service
of the Colony and those drawn for Army Services may be specially
distinguished by distinct series of numbers.