Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State

The Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have
had before them your letter of the 29th ulto enclosing
copy of a letter from the Crown Agents relative to the
proposal to invest a portion of the sinking Fund of British
Columbia Loans in the purchase of the Debentures of the Colony.

I am to state for the information of the Secretary of State that
My Lords will not object to a discretionary power being given to
the Crown Agents for the investment, subject to the provisions
of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1866, of the Sinking Funds of these
Loans in the purchase of Debentures of B. Columbia or of Ceylon,
New South Wales, Mauritius, Victoria, or Cape of Good Hope or
New Zealand.