Tilley to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 12th Instant, transmitting copy
of a Despatch from the Governor of British Columbia, relative to
the Rules which are proposed for the transaction of Money Order
Business between the United Kingdom and that Colony, and which,
it is seen, are generally assented to by the Colonial Government.

The only Rule on which they make a remark is the 18th—relating
to remittances of money to pay the Money Orders drawn in British
Columbia on the United Kingdom. In the case of this Colony,
such remittances, as stated by the Governor, will probably not
be necessary, because this Office has, periodically, to make
payment to the Colony, through the Crown Agents in London of
between £500 and £600 annually, on account of the subsidy for
conveyance of the Colonial Mails to and from San Francisco; and
the sum thus payable may be retained as a set off against the
Money Orders drawn upon this Country by the Colonial Post
Office: on the understanding that, should the amount due from
the Colony for Money Orders at any time exceed the sum due from
this Country for the Packet Service, the question of remittance
must be again considered.

I am to request that the Earl of Kimberley will inform the
Governor accordingly, and, in desiring him to take measures for
carrying the Money Order system into operation, will propose to
him, as a convenient arrangement, that the 1st May next shall be
fixed as the date for commencing the Business on both sides.