Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 18 Inst, I am directed by
the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that
you will move The Duke of Newcastle to forward to this Board the
Report of the Governor of British Columbia, relative to the creation of
a Registry of Titles to Land, also the Proclamation to which he refers.

My Lords also request to be informed whether the duties proposed
to be assigned to the Registrar, or any part of them, are at present
performed by the Officer commanding the Royal Engineers for whose
Establishment a sum of £1200 was voted in the Estimates of 1861-2
under the head of "Commissioner of Lands and Works."

Their Lordships observe in the Return of Appointments in British Columbia to 31 December 1860 the Office of "Registrar of Superior Court"
at a Salary of £300, and They would suggest whether the Officer might
not be able to perform the duties of Registrar of Titles to Land,
in addition to his other duties, with an increased Salary, whereby
a separate appointment with the large salary of £500, as proposed,
might be avoided.