Peel to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to transmit to you herewith, for the information of
Mr Secretary Cardwell, a copy of a Report, No 217, from
the Commissioners of Audit dated 23rd Ultimo, with copy
of the reply which My Lords have addressed to the Commissioners
relating to expenditure on Roads in British Columbia, and to
the money borrowed by Debentures and Road Bonds to cover that
expenditure during the year 1862.

I am, at the same time, to transmit to you the enclosed
statement of payments not provided for in the estimates for
the year, and to request that you will move Mr Secretary
Cardwell to inform My Lords whether he sees any objection to
the admission of the charges enumerated in that statement;
My Lords would suggest that the Governor of British Columbia
should be instructed to prepare at the end of each year,
Supplementary Estimates of all expenditure not covered by
the original Estimate of the year, and to submit the same,
as soon as convenient at the commencement of the following
year, to the Legislative Council with an Ordinance to
authorize the appropriation of the amount required to cover
the excess over the original estimates.